Jeffrey

1995

Action / Comedy / Drama

2
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 67% · 31 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 67% · 5K ratings
IMDb Rating 6.8/10 10 7127 7.1K

new york city aids celibacy based on play or musical hiv priest

Plot summary

Jeffrey, a gay man living in New York City with an overwhelming fear of contracting AIDS, concludes that being celibate is the only option to protect himself. As fate would have it, shortly after his declaration of a sex-free existence, he meets the handsome Steve Howard, his dream man -- except for his HIV-positive status. Facing this dilemma, Jeffrey turns to his best friend and an outrageous priest for guidance.

Director

Christopher Ashley Photo
Christopher Ashley

Top cast

Kevin Nealon Photo
Kevin Nealon as TV Reporter
Bill Clinton Photo
Bill Clinton as Self
Sigourney Weaver Photo
Sigourney Weaver as Debra Moorhouse
Peter Maloney Photo
Peter Maloney as Dad
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860.46 MB
1280*694
English 2.0
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23.976 fps
1 hr 33 min
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1.56 GB
1920*1040
English 2.0
NR
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23.976 fps
1 hr 33 min
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by preppy-3 7 / 10

OK but lacking

This takes place when AIDS was still killing guys left and right. Gay Jeffrey (Steven Weber) loves sex but is terrified that he'll get AIDS. So he decides to give up sex completely. Then he meets handsome, hunky Steve (Michael T. Weiss) and falls in love. Michael feels the same way...but he's HIV+. Can Jeffrey fight his fear?First off, the play was better. Some of the humor that worked so well on stage fell flat on a movie screen. Second, Weber is miscast. He's handsome, muscular but he can't act. However, I give him credit for playing an openly gay man so easily. Third, the direction is really off. I don't recognize the director's name, but comedy is not his forte. His direction really destroyed some of the jokes. Other than that, this is an OK movie. Michael T. Weiss is beautiful (and hunky) and one hell of an actor. Patrick Stewart played a gay older man to perfection--I couldn't believe it when I found out he was straight. Also the scenes with Olympia Dukakis, Sigourney Weaver and Nathan Lane are great! Also a great romantic ending with a few nice, long kisses. So, worth seeing but no great movie. If only they had a better leading man and a better director it might have worked.
Reviewed by JasonTyne 8 / 10

A touching AIDS comedy? Sure, why not?

This is a very silly movie. If you don't think that a movie about AIDS can be silly, you need to see this movie. Susan Sontag would be very happy to see a movie that defies the thought that AIDS=death, and that AIDS (or the fear of it) doesn't stop love or life. Jeffrey is a gay man in New York City who suddenly decides to stop having sex. His plan goes well until he meets a gorgeous man in the gym that he can't stop thinking about. The more he tries to maintain a sex-free lifestyle, the more he thinks about this man. His feelings for the man is complicated when it it revealed to Jeffrey that the man is HIV+. It's as smart as an ironic romantic comedy can be and as funny as a movie about life can be. Personally I think that Patrick Stewart was directed to be far to gay than he needs to be (Not all gay men are limp-wristed, Patrick.) and the world doesn't need another gay priest joke, but you can't take this movie to seriously. After all it's a romantic comedy!
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