Crocodile Tears (1998)

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Ann Coppel directed this Seattle-based low-budget dark comedy, adapted by executive producer-actor Ted Sod from his own AIDS-themed play Satan and Simon DeSoto. Junior-high art instructor Simon (Sod) gets a 1995 HIV-positive diagnosis. Simon panics, since he had a friend who had suffered from AIDS before choosing to commit suicide. Satan (William Salyers) appears and offers to rid Simon of HIV. In return, Simon is forced to become a racist, homophobic, anti-Semitic stand-up comic, while allowing his former lover Carl (Dan Savage) to die instead. Shown at the 1998 Sydney Gay & Lesbian Mardi Gras Film Festival. ~ Bhob Stewart, Rovi

Starring:: Ted Sod, Joanne Klein, (more)

Director(s):: Ann Coppel

Format(s):: DVD
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Synopsis of Crocodile Tears

Theatrical Feature Running Time:: 84 mins

Complete Cast of Crocodile Tears

Ted Sod - Simon DeSoto
William Salyers - Mr. Chesebro
Brian O'Hare - Jerry Sheckler

Joanne Klein - Lana
Wade Madsen - Fred Hiskey

Director(s):: Ann Coppel

Writer(s):: Ted Sod

Producer(s):: Sandy Cioffi

Categories:: Comedy

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	MARK F.

2 out of 2 people found this review helpful

Just days before the premiere of CROCODILE TEARS at the World AIDS Conference in Vancouver, B. C., Canada, announced Protease Inhibitors. Immediately, the film's edge', 'rage', 'relevance' and 'immediacy' were gone. Everyone had tired living in a constant state of depression. Funerals, Memorials and Tributes were considered 'social events'. Critics called Sod's in-your-face rants 'pointless'; the subject matter 'instant history' and the few bits of black humor 'in bad taste'. CROCODILE TEARS and other films that honestly portray life during the 'Plague Years' (i.e., LONGTIME COMPANION, ANGELS IN AMERICA, PARTING GLANCES, IT'S MY PARTY) don't appear in most queues or wish-lists. World AIDS Day is Dec. 1 - take the time and learn AIDS is much more than slick ads, red ribbons or 'someone else's problem' with CROCODILE TEARS.

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	Aolani G.

1 out of 1 people found this review helpful

Dark comedy? This film is dark, but very little is funny about it. My best friend is gay and watching this movie didn't enlighten or create any deeper feeling than "What the eff?" It more closely follows a series of hallucinations I once had while sedated for a major surgery. Total waste of time and so overly dramatized that it creates additional undeserved stereotypes for gays/lesbians living in this time. Ugh!

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