Too Little, Too Late
a program about families of people with AIDS
By Micki Dickoff

What does it feel like to be the sister of an AIDS patient, and to have to listen to AIDS jokes from co-workers? To be unable to talk about your dying son for fear of losing your job? To have your neighbors forbid their children to play with yours because your youngest child is ill with AIDS? For every AIDS patient, it's been estimated that the lives of at least eight family members and close friends are profoundly affected. Isolated and often shunned, these mothers and fathers, brothers and sisters, lovers and friends can feel that they are alone and have nowhere to turn.

In Too Little, Too Late several of these families share their pain and frustration, as well as the solace they have derived from having been able to help their loved one to a peaceful death. Major funding provided by the American Foundation for AIDS Research

49 minutes
© 1987
Purchase $99 VHS
Order No. QA-027
ISBN (VHS) 1-57295-027-7

Reviews
"A moving story of the heroic efforts that mothers and fathers of people with AIDS have made in standing by their children in time of crisis." David Aronstein, AIDS Action of Massachusetts

Awards & Conference Screenings
Gold Plaque, Chicago Intl. Film Festival
Bronze Chris, Columbus Film Festival
Cum Laude, Medikinale Parma
National Council on Family Relations
National Educational Film Festival

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