This piece of Hollywood trash is totally worthless in terms of presenting any truth about gay life and dealing with AIDS. Now I can see why a director like Spike Lee would object to Spielberg making 'Amistad'. He just doesn't know or understand anything about the subject matter, and I doubt the director here knew much about gays or AIDS. At least he didn't demonstrate to me that he had any more knowledge or empathy than Denzel Washington or his character did. And as for Hanks playing a gay man, well, it was much like Jimmy Stewart in 'Rope'. He had no idea what he was doing. Banderas, who has played a gay man in his films with Almodovar, at least seemed to have some idea. All the other 'gay' men were simply the usual Hollywood stereotypes.