One Foot on a Banana Peel, the Other Foot in the Grave: Secrets from the Dolly Madison Room

3.7

3 votes

1994

1h 19m

Documentary

Overview

Secrets from the Dolly Madison Room This thoughts and feelings of gays with AIDS are revealed in this documentary set in a New York West Village clinic. One of the patients dies during the course of the film. The patients speak with candor and humor about their grave condition, about the support they give each other, and about their preparations for death. The outcome alternates between pathos and the upbeat.

Directed by Juan Botas, Lucas Platt