WHEN I DIE IN OBSCURITY, PEOPLE
(SURELY YOU)
WILL SIMPLY LAUGH

Buddies is the rereleased AIDS drama from circa 1985. It’s quite terrible, except inasmuch as, like Parting Glances, it offers a view of pretty nice Manhattan apartments in the 1980s.

Rather oddly, the main nebbish is a typesetter. (ParaGraphics, a type house, is credited.)

Man shaving at mirror with typeface posters on wall

Of course the “subtitles” are complete shite, and banged out in Arial, equally obviously.

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