Gena Rowlands credited as playing...
Katherine Pierson
- Michael Pierson: It's not just pneumonia, mom. I have AIDS.
- Katherine Pierson: AIDS?
- Michael Pierson: It's a disease...
- Nick Pierson: Yeah, I know what it is.
- Katherine Pierson: Michael, that's impossible. Who told you such a thing?
- Michael Pierson: The doctors did their tests.
- Katherine Pierson: No, AIDS is that disease...
- Michael Pierson: I'm gay, mom.
- Katherine Pierson: I want you to hear this, when this young man found out that he had AIDS, his roommates locked him out of the apartment. They took his possessions, threw them out in the street. Not one of his friends would take him in. He was out there wandering around sick, literally sleeping on park benches. And the worst thing of all, his parents just washed their hands of him. They refuse to see him. They wouldn't speak to him. They have never spoken to him since. He's in that hospital, and he's alone. He's dying all alone. No one. I tell ya, Nick, that is not going to happen to our son. Not to Michael.