Release, runtime and language

1993 · 100 mins · English

Directed by

John Greyson

Starring

Colin Campbell, Patricia Rozema, Jeremy Podeswa, David Gale, John Robinson, Bernard Behrens

A satirical take on the AIDS crisis follows the ghost of the infamous “patient zero,” who claims to have introduced the disease to North America and now drifts through the after‑life trying to reconnect with old acquaintances. Meanwhile, Sir Richard Burton—a Victorian explorer turned chief taxidermist at Toronto’s Natural History Museum—struggles to organize a provocative “Hall of Contagion” exhibition about the epidemic.