How to Survive a Plague (2012) - Movie Details

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Release Date:	September 21, 2012 (Limited)
On DVD:	February 26, 2013
Genre:	Documentary
Director:	David France
Writer:	David France, Todd Woody Richman, Tyler H. Walk
Cast:	NA
Studio:	Sundance Selects
Running Time:	120 minutes
MPAA Rating:	Unrated

"How to Survive a Plague" is the story of the brave young men and women who successfully reversed the tide of an epidemic, demanded the attention of a fearful nation and stopped AIDS from becoming a death sentence. This improbable group of activists bucked oppression and, with no scientific training, infiltrated government agencies and the pharmaceutical industry, helping to identify promising new medication and treatments and move them through trials and into drugstores in record...

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Maybe I just wasn't in a documentary mood today. After watching Searching for Sugar Man, which underperformed expectations, I immediately switched to another Oscar-nominated documentary feature, the much heralded How to Survive a Plague. While good, it too was not the groundbreaking film it was supposed to be.

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