Among the most iconic Hollywood men of the 1950s and 1960s, Rock Hudson embodied masculinity and straightness until his diagnosis and death from AIDS in 1985 shattered the hall-of-mirrors of his life. This intimate portrait tells the story of Hudson as a man who lived a double life, revealing the man behind the myth—while his public persona was meticulously curated by his handlers, controlled by the studio system and falsely anchored by a lavender marriage, Hudson had to keep his homosexuality behind closed doors—through archival footage and testimonies from some of his closest friends.
Rock Hudson: All That Heaven Allowed
Stephen Kijak
2023
United Kingdom
105’