Pushing Dead (2016)

Directed by

Tom E. Brown

Genre

comedy, drama

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 48m

Rated

18A

Rating

6.0 of 10 from 32 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A long-time HIV-positive writer in San Francisco loses his health insurance after depositing a small birthday check. He has to navigate a broken system or find thousands of dollars each month to stay alive.

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What happens

Pushing Dead is Tom E. Brown's debut film, a 2017 American independent comedy drama film written and directed by Brown and starring James Roday Rodriguez, Danny Glover, Robin Weigert and Khandi Alexander. Pushing Dead follows Dan Schauble (Rodriguez), a struggling writer—HIV-positive for 20+ years— dropped from his health plan for earning too much after he deposits a $100 birthday check. In this new era of sort-of universal care, his only options are long shots: take on a helpless bureaucracy, or come up with $3000 a month to buy his medication. The production participated in the San Francisco "Scene in San Francisco Incentive Program" administered by the San Francisco Film Commission. Additional support/funding was provided by the Sundance Institute/Rockefeller Foundation (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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