Life Support Page #2

Synopsis: In Brooklyn, New York, the former crack addicted Ana Wallace is HIV positive and is a volunteer in the Life Support, an organization that promotes a fight against AIDS in the African American community. Ana wanders through the streets handing out condoms and helping people with AIDS through lectures and advices. She lives with her mate Slick, who has transmitted AIDS to her, and their little daughter Kim. She has lost the custody of her older daughter Kelly that lives with her estranged mother Lucille. When Kelly's childhood gay friend Amare, who is sick and rejected by his sister Tanya, vanishes on the streets of Brooklyn, Ana seeks him out and tries to save him. Meanwhile Lucille decides to move to Virginia with Kelly, and Ana reflects about her life and the relationship with Kelly.
Genre: Drama
Director(s): Nelson George
  Won 1 Golden Globe. Another 8 wins & 13 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.9
TV-MA
Year:
2007
87 min
106 Views


and... I don't know, something else

that ain't even come out yet.

Anyway, I'll see you

at dinner tonight, all right? Bye.

We have to talk

about some funding, ladies.

We really need to make

sure that every time

we are at a site

or at a meeting

or at a forum

or what have you,

that anybody that you're talking to,

that you are referring to anyplace

for testing, counseling,

what have you, support group...

make sure you get those

stat sheets filled out

so we can hand them in

and we can get paid.

And we keep on doing

what we're doing.

Okay. The female condom, girls.

If we're teaching women

how to take care of themselves,

then they gotta

take care of themselves.

I have such a hard time

getting our young sisters

to just even try it.

They like, "What's that?

I don't like it.

- I don't think it's gonna feel good. "

- Yeah.

I say, "Well, listen.

This will put you in control

of protecting yourself

and your own sexuality... "

But a lot of the older

women don't know about

Reality and female condoms.

- Right.

- They never heard of 'em.

The Muslim women, they'll

take the Reality before they take...

and I don't know, maybe it has

something to do with their husband...

they get questioned

less with the female condom

- than they would with a male condom.

- Sure.

You could always tell them

that they can put that on eight hours

- before their partner get there.

- I think that's a good

little key right there.

We gotta definitely

let them know that they

can wear it for a while.

You know what I mean? Because...

before you go to the club...

- Oh my god.

- I mean, that's what it is. If...

- That's right.

- If you're planning

on getting down like that...

I can order

the vagina demonstrator.

And we can use that to take

it out into the field with us.

- I think you should order that.

- It's okay to invoice.

- It's done.

- I think the quicker we can use it,

- show 'em how easy it is to do...

- Right. Yeah.

...it will make it as simple

as putting on a condom

in their minds,

you know what I mean?

That was great today.

- Good turn out.

- Good morning, this is Life Support.

Deyah just walked in.

Got a couple of minutes?

She was asking for you.

Yeah, sure I do.

Deyah...

you want a chance

at having an healthy child,

you gotta keep taking the AZT.

And going back

to the hills of Jamaica

to see the Obeah man,

that ain't the answer.

Listen now. There is there a herb

that might make the virus go away.

Don't you think we'd all be

in Jamaica if that was the truth?

Can't nothing make

this virus go away.

Now look,

you saw my daughter.

I was HIV positive

when I had her.

She's nine

and she's HIV negative.

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Nelson George

Nelson George (born September 1, 1957) is an African-American author, columnist, music and culture critic, journalist, and filmmaker. He has been nominated twice for the National Book Critics Circle Award. more…

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