Movie Details
Theatrical Release:January 1st, 1997
Original Language:English
Cast & Crew
M
Monte Bramer
Director
M
Monte Bramer
Writer
Paul Monette The Brink of Summers End (1997)
Audience Score
Narrated by Linda Hunt this documentary examines the life of the late author and gay rights activist Paul Monette Born in 1945 to a welloff Massachusetts family Monette grows up unable to accept his homosexuality for years hiding it from his loved ones while struggling to develop as a writer In 1978 Monette publishes his first novel which allows him to come out to his parents After losing one lover to AIDS in 1986 he becomes a ferocious advocate for awareness of the disease