1985

An Early Frost
NBC movie
John Erman, director
Art Seidel, unit production manager
Steve McEveety, first assistant director
Mike Schilz, second assistant director

This watershed production about the AIDS epidemic posed dual shocks to the American family system: The son is homosexual, and he's dying from AIDS. Aidan Quinn delivered one of his finest performances as attorney Michael Pierson, who returns from Chicago to rural Pennsylvania to announce his fate to the family. Erman directed a superb cast in Gena Rowlands, Ben Gazzara, Sylvia Sidney, John Glover, Bill Paxton, Terry O'Quinn and D.W. Moffett. Fourteen Emmy Award nominations were bestowed on this movie.