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25/08/2024 Documentary 0h 40m
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Overview

At the height of the AIDS crisis, many gay men sold their life insurance policies to investors for quick cash. This documentary charts the rise and fall of the hundred-million-dollar “gay-death-profiteering” industry that grew out of their desperation, and spotlights one of its earliest investors: the filmmaker’s father.

  1. Matt Nadel

    Director

Top billed cast

  1. Sean O. Strub

    Self

  2. Matt Nadel

    Self

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A review by CinemaSerf
Written by CinemaSerf on 2026-01-19
This is really quite a thought-provoking documentary that, though focussed on gay men who died of AIDS (or GRID) early on, could apply to anyone who has insurance policies that make them worth more dead than alive. From the perspective of an innovator in this financial sector, Scott Page, this explores just how poverty-stricken some of the initial sufferers of this disease were. Often alone, jobless and homeless with their scant resources going to pay medical bills, someone hit on the idea of selling already held insurance policies to investors in return for a percentage of the insured sum to ...read the rest
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Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$0.00

Revenue
$0.00

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