And the Band Played On (film)

And the Band Played On
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Genre	Drama
Based on	And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic by Randy Shilts
Screenplay by	Arnold Schulman
Directed by	Roger Spottiswoode
Starring	Matthew Modine Alan Alda Ian McKellen Lily Tomlin Richard Gere
Music by	Carter Burwell
Country of origin	United States
Original language	English
Production
Executive producers	Aaron Spelling E. Duke Vincent
Producers	Sarah Pillsbury Midge Sanford
Cinematography	Paul Elliott
Editor	Lois Freeman-Fox
Running time	141 minutes
Production companies	Spelling Entertainment HBO Pictures
Budget	$8 million
Original release
Network	HBO
Release	September 11, 1993 (1993-09-11)
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And the Band Played On is a 1993 American television film docudrama directed by Roger Spottiswoode. The teleplay by Arnold Schulman is based on the best-selling 1987 non-fiction book And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic by Randy Shilts, and is noteworthy for featuring both a vast historical scope, as well as an exceptionally sprawling cast.

The film premiered at the Montreal World Film Festival on September 2, 1993, before being broadcast on HBO on September 11, 1993. It later was released in the United Kingdom, Canada, Spain, Germany, Argentina, Austria, Italy, Sweden, the Netherlands, Belgium, France, Denmark, New Zealand, and Australia. The HBO movie was later aired on NBC in 1994. NBC (as well as ABC) were some of the networks considered to make a miniseries based on the book in the late 1980s, but the networks turned it down because they could not find a way to structure it as a two-night, four-hour miniseries. In 1994, NBC finally aired the movie with a parental discretion warning due to its sensitive subject matter.