Life Support

Life Support

🎞️ Movie 87 min US
โ˜… 6.7 /10 2007

You Can't Live Without It.

In Brooklyn, New York, the former crack addicted Ana Wallace is HIV positive and is a volunteer in the Life Support, an organization that promotes a fight against AIDS in the African American community. Ana wanders through the streets handing out condoms and helping people with AIDS through lectures and advices. She lives with her mate Slick, who has transmitted AIDS to her, and their little daughter Kim. She has lost the custody of her older daughter Kelly that lives with her estranged mother Lucille. When Kelly's childhood gay friend Amare, who is sick and rejected by his sister Tanya, vanishes on the streets of Brooklyn, Ana seeks him out and tries to save him. Meanwhile Lucille decides to move to Virginia with Kelly, and Ana reflects about her life and the relationship with Kelly.

Cast

Queen Latifah
Queen Latifah
Ana
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Vianca Mercedes
Drug addict
Anna Deavere Smith
Anna Deavere Smith
Lucille
Wendell Pierce
Wendell Pierce
Slick
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Rachel Nicks
Kelly
Evan Ross
Evan Ross
Amare
Gloria Reuben
Gloria Reuben
Sandra
Tony Rock
Tony Rock
Ness
Darrin Dewitt Henson
Darrin Dewitt Henson
MJ2
Tracee Ellis Ross
Tracee Ellis Ross
Tanya
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Stuart Matthewman
Composer
Uta Briesewitz
Uta Briesewitz
Cinematographer