Love and Death on Long Island (1997)

Directed by

Richard Kwietniowski

Genre

drama film, comedy film, LGBTQ-related film

Country

United Kingdom, Canada

Runtime

1h 33m

Rated

PG-13

Rating

6.3 of 10 from 57 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A reclusive British author becomes infatuated with a young American actor after seeing him in a movie. He travels to Long Island to pursue an unlikely connection with the object of his fixation.

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What happens

Love and Death on Long Island is a 1997 British-Canadian film adapted from Gilbert Adair's 1990 novel of the same name, directed by Richard Kwietniowski and starring Jason Priestley, John Hurt, Fiona Loewi, Sheila Hancock and Anne Reid. The storyline of obsession somewhat resembles that of Death in Venice. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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