This movie didn't seen very promising to me. But I started to watch (1 of my bunch movies to watch). In the beginning I didn't understand why they would do something to somebody you love so much. But at the end... I would do the same!!! I felt what the family and friends felt. You always think, it will never happens to me. but if you see this movie it comes very close to you, just like it happens to one of you family member. Fantastic acting and with a good casting crew... The movies of Thom Fitzgerald are not well know, but they should be... A well deserved 7 out of 10!!!greets, GameBelgium

The event was a strong powerful movie. The family was cast perfect. It felt like it could of been your neighbors. The movie made me cry and every person sitting next o me cried as well. Olympia should get an award for her acting. The little girls made me laugh. I needed to laugh between my tears. Good Job

I just got home from seeing this at the 2003 San Francisco ILGFF. It is an extremely powerful movie by the director of The Hanging Garden and Beefcake. There are some familiar faces like Olympia Dukakis, Parker Posey, and Jane Leeves (Frasier's Daphne Moon). The Event shows many different sides of the issue and does not impose an opinion on you. You will leave the theater discussing the issues and characters with your friends. And that's the mark of a good movie. I don't want to spoil it, just go see it!

I was fortunate enough to see this film at the Sundance Film Festival, and while I was ostensibly in Park City for skiing, this film will stand out in my memory as the high point of the trip. Poignant, heartfelt, authentic, beautifully acted, outstanding direction, incredible script - I could go on...When the director of the film came out to address the audience before the screening, he commented about all the love that went into this film. This "touchy-feely" stuff tends to make me a bit uneasy, but in fact, every frame of this picture showed that love.This film is so utterly honest with it's subject - a gay man dying of AIDS, post 9/11 - that you wonder how a film like "Philadelphia" is still regarded in such high esteem. As a gay man, I felt "Philadelphia" was fraudulent - unreal - pure Hollywood sap. (I won't ever forget the scene when Hank's character, covered with KS lesions, is handed a newborn baby to cuddle. Yeah, that'd happen...)If you want the real thing, check out this amazing, wonderful film - we now just have to pray this masterpiece finds a distributor.The auditorium I saw this film in at Sundance probably held 1500 people. There wasn't a dry eye in the house.