Love! Valour! Compassion! (1997) - Turner Classic Movies

Brief Synopsis

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Set in and about a sprawling, airy Victorian house on a private lake--eight male friends, all of them gay, leave the city behind for three simple weekends of rest and relaxation. But that's the least of what they experience. Over the next three summer holiday weekends--Memorial Day, Fourth of July and Labor Day--these eight friends will fall in love and fall from grace, they will hurt one another and forgive one another. They will form couples and break apart, they will celebrate strength and give in to weakness, they will play jokes on each other and give a shoulder to each other. They will form an assortment of hilarious, bewildering and inspiring permutations on contemporary relationships. They will even don tu-tus, for a very good cause. Sparks will fly and bonds will be sealed. But no one will emerge from these three weekends in the country the same. No one will leave without taking a humbling, surprising reminder of just how funny and heroic love is and how wondrous the human spirit can be.

Cast & Crew

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Joe Mantello

Jason Alexander

Randy Becker

Stephen Bogardus

Gregory Mitchell

John Glover

James Jeckyll; John Jeckyll

John Benjamin Hickey

Film Details

MPAA Rating

Genre

Adaptation

Comedy

Drama

Release Date

1997

Production Company

Cinema Research Corporation; Fine Line Features

Distribution Company

FINE LINE/FINE LINE FEATURES; Constantin Film Development, Inc.; Fine Line Features; Focus Features; Metropolitan Filmexport; New Line Home Entertainment; Polygram Filmed Entertainment; Village Roadshow Limited

Location

Montreal, Quebec, Canada; New York, USA

Technical Specs

Duration

1h 55m

Synopsis

Set in and about a sprawling, airy Victorian house on a private lake--eight male friends, all of them gay, leave the city behind for three simple weekends of rest and relaxation. But that's the least of what they experience. Over the next three summer holiday weekends--Memorial Day, Fourth of July and Labor Day--these eight friends will fall in love and fall from grace, they will hurt one another and forgive one another. They will form couples and break apart, they will celebrate strength and give in to weakness, they will play jokes on each other and give a shoulder to each other. They will form an assortment of hilarious, bewildering and inspiring permutations on contemporary relationships. They will even don tu-tus, for a very good cause. Sparks will fly and bonds will be sealed. But no one will emerge from these three weekends in the country the same. No one will leave without taking a humbling, surprising reminder of just how funny and heroic love is and how wondrous the human spirit can be.

Director

Joe Mantello

Cast

Jason Alexander

Randy Becker

Stephen Bogardus

Gregory Mitchell

John Glover

James Jeckyll; John Jeckyll

John Benjamin Hickey

Justin Kirk

Stephen Spinella

Crew

Richard Adler

Song ("Steam Heat")

Wenden Baldwin

Paul Broucek

Music Executive (For Fine Line)

Kelly Cabral

Supervising Sound Editor

Kelly Cabral

Supervising Adr Editor

Patrick Cabral

John Carrafa

Doug Chapin

Don Cohen

Sound Recordist

Diane Conn

Diane Conn

Unit Production Manager

Jacqueline Dinsmore

Production Coordinator

Jim Disensi

Joe Divitale

Dialogue Editor

Raymond Dorset

Song ("In The Summertime")

André Duval

Fred Ebb

Song ("Willkommen")

Robert Fernandez

New York Adr Mixer

Ed Fisher

2nd Assistant Director

Ella Fitzgerald

Song Performer ("Bewitched, Bothered And Bewildered")

Anne Galea

Andre Gaumond

1st Assistant Director

Jess Goldstein

Costume Designer

Oscar Hammerstein Ii

Song ("Shall I Tell You What I Think Of You")

Lorenz Hart

Song ("Bewitched, Bothered And Bewildered")

Mildred Hill

Song ("Happy Anniversary To You")

Patty Hill

Song ("Happy Anniversary To You")

Melissa Hoffman

Re-Recording Mixer

Mungo Jerry

J. Stanley Johnston

John Kander

Song ("Willkommen")

Mark S. Kaufman

Music Coordinator (For Fine Line)

Sara King

Executive In Charge Of Post Production

Barry Krost

Jackie Krost

Music Supervision

Amy Labowitz

Executive Producer

Jacqueline Lachapelle

Script Supervisor

Serge Ladouceur

Camera Operator

Steve Livingston

Kimaree Long

Gary Lux

Gary Lux

Jennifer Mann

Sound Effects Editor

Fabian Marquez

Post Production Coordinator

Terrence Mcnally

Terrence Mcnally

Play As Source Material ("Love! Valour! Compassion!")

Donald J. Mowat

Key Makeup Artist

Perry Robertson

Sound Effects Editor

Richard Rodgers

Song ("Bewitched, Bothered And Bewildered"), Song ("Shall I Tell You What I Think Of You")

Jerry Ross

Jerry Ross

Song ("Steam Heat")

Alik Sakharov

Director Of Photography

Jackson Schwartz

Los Angeles Adr Mixer

Francois Seguin

Production Designer

Colleen Sharp

Edward Steidele

Ann Szakmeister

Dialogue Editor

Ruth Vitale

Executive Producer

Hannah L Vorlicek

3rd Assistant Director

Richard Weingart

Jonathan A Weisgal

Executive Producer

Harold Wheeler

Harold Wheeler

Harold Wheeler

Kathy Wolf

Montreal Production Manager

Film Details

MPAA Rating

Genre

Adaptation

Comedy

Drama

Release Date

1997

Production Company

Cinema Research Corporation; Fine Line Features

Distribution Company

FINE LINE/FINE LINE FEATURES; Constantin Film Development, Inc.; Fine Line Features; Focus Features; Metropolitan Filmexport; New Line Home Entertainment; Polygram Filmed Entertainment; Village Roadshow Limited

Location

Montreal, Quebec, Canada; New York, USA

Technical Specs

Duration

1h 55m

Quotes

Trivia

Miscellaneous Notes

Expanded Release in United States June 6, 1997

Limited Release in United States May 23, 1997

Released in United States 1997

Released in United States January 1997

Released in United States on Video November 18, 1997

Released in United States September 1997

Released in United States Spring May 16, 1997

Shown at Deauville Film Festival (in competition) September 5-14, 1997.

Shown at San Francisco International Film Festival April 24 - May 8, 1997.

Feature directorial debut for theatre actor/director Joe Mantello.

Began shooting June 25, 1996.

Completed shooting July 27, 1996.

Released in United States 1997 (Shown at San Francisco International Film Festival April 24 - May 8, 1997.)

Released in United States January 1997 (Shown at Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah January 16-26, 1997.)

Released in United States Spring May 16, 1997

Limited Release in United States May 23, 1997

Expanded Release in United States June 6, 1997

Released in United States September 1997 (Shown at Deauville Film Festival (in competition) September 5-14, 1997.)

Released in United States on Video November 18, 1997

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