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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 9780783122786
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
ISBN: 0783122780
Label: Hbo Home Video
Manufacturer: Hbo Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Hbo Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: June 01, 2004
Running Time: 91 minutes
Sales Rank: 60210
Studio: Hbo Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: May 08, 1993
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Product Description:
In the not-too-distant future America has been ravaged by a deadly epidemic. To contain it the government quarantines the victims and leaves them to die. But now a band of rebels have taken to the streets to save the lives of those in need. Can they take on the government and survive?Running Time: 88 min.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: ACTION/ADVENTURE UPC: 026359087226
Amazon.com:
Daybreak is an HBO drama based on Alan Bowne's acclaimed off-Broadway play Beirut. The play is a taut, two-character allegory about AIDS that takes place in one dismal room on Manhattan's Lower East Side. The film has been 'opened-out' into an apocalyptic, romantic action-thriller. New York City is a 1984-style fascist nightmare steeped in poverty and ridden with plague. Bands of armed officers under the rubric Operation Helping Hand roam the streets rounding up Positives, who are tattooed and quarantined in filthy hellholes. Blue, a poor but pretty young woman (sweet-faced Moira Kelly), stumbles onto a secret resistance group that rescue Positives to give them compassionate care. Blue falls in love with their courageous leader, Torch, powerfully played by Cuba Gooding Jr. The play focuses on the relationship between these star-crossed lovers and the film's best moments do the same. Neither the play nor the film ever mentions AIDS by name, but it is clear that in both cases AIDS is the plague in question and the theme is the hysteria that AIDS can generate. The horrible future these dramas foresaw did not come to pass. Since they were written, great medical strides have been made that have changed the face of AIDS. But fear and misinformation about the disease persist. AIDS remains a major health crisis worldwide and Daybreak is a powerful film that deserves to be seen. --Laura Mirsky
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating: - Daybreak
This movie is everything it was when I first saw it. I loved it then. It was so ahead of it's self. It reminded me alot of how AD|IDS was treated at first and what I could imagine the government could do if it wanted. Who knows. It could happen in the future. Cuba and Mora are excellent with each other.
Rating: - Nots as good as I remembered. BETTER.
One of Cuba Gooding Jr.'s most memorable performances to the few of us who've had the luck to see this movie. I was just a kid when it first aired, but I never forgot about the girl named Blue who loved a man enough to want to die for him... a man who was trying to open the eyes of the world, even though he himself was doomed and knew it.
This movie is so very underrated that I had to run a search for female characters named Blue to find it. I am extremely glad to have been able to track ... Read More
Rating: - Great HBO flick
I seen it a few months back then, to my dismay it was on again the same time as RAW, but instead I recorded it anyways. It does a very good job of creating a nightmare Orwellian future, without making the people seem too paranoid for the most part. The scenes of the President talking on TV were very powerful. It strongly reminded one of a "Big Brother lite." Yes there is violence and a love story and rebels risking their lives for a better future.
Some favorite moments: 1. The girls running ... Read More
Rating:  - cuba is the best
just as good as i remembered! I have spent 10yrs trying to find this film as i first saw it on sky tv. Everytime i described it to someone they tried to point me to Outbreak! Anyway basic plot outline is a good old goverment conspiracy and the good guys (cuba gooding jr and co) trying to outwit the bad guys (omar epps and cronies). The only problem that some might find with this film is the fact that its not as polished as the hollywood blockbusters but it is a made for tv movie. Overall i'm glad i managed ... Read More
Rating: - One of the Best Movies I accidentally happened upon.
This is one of my favorite movies. I love Cuba Gooding Jr. anyways but him and Moira Kelly had great chemistry in this movie an made a wonderful couple. It was sooooo good. But if I would have been her, I would have slept with him anyways and died with him because they had true love. I wanted her to sleep with him so bad and he wouldn't do it.
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