The Living End

About The Living End

Two HIV-positive young men — a semi-employed film critic and a hot hustler — tear off on a cross-country crime spree.

The Living End is a 1992 crime romance film directed by Gregg Araki. Mike Dytri stars as Luke, Craig Gilmore as Jon, Mark Finch as Doctor, and Mary Woronov as Daisy.

Released in August 1992, it runs 85 minutes. Written by Gregg Araki. It was produced by Desperate Pictures.

Members will find boys' love (bl), AIDS, sex worker, and nihilism in it. In the United States it streams on Metrograph, MUBI, and MUBI Amazon Channel. It scores 6.7 out of 10 from 98 TMDB voters and it carries a NR rating.

Bohemian Rhapsody, Philadelphia, and The Normal Heart make useful companions to The Living End, all filed under gay theme and HIV.