--- title: 'Zero Patience (1993)' type: 'film' director: 'John Greyson' released: '1993-09-11' runtime_minutes: 100 genres: - 'Fantasy' - 'Music' countries: - 'Canada' canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/zero-patience-1993' review_count: 0 imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0108649/' publisher: 'CinePixo' --- # Zero Patience (1993) 1993 · 100 min · Fantasy, Music · Canada ## Synopsis Zero Patience is a 1993 Canadian musical film written and directed by John Greyson. The film examines and refutes the urban legend of the alleged introduction of HIV to North America by a single individual, Gaëtan Dugas. Dugas, better known as Patient Zero, was the target of blame in the popular imagination in the 1980s in large measure because of Randy Shilts's American television film docudrama, And the Band Played On (1987), a history of the early days of the AIDS epidemic. Zero Patience tells its story against the backdrop of a romance between a time-displaced Sir Richard Francis Burton and the ghost of "Zero". ## Credits - **Director:** [John Greyson](https://cinepixo.com/people/john-greyson) - **Screenplay:** [John Greyson](https://cinepixo.com/people/john-greyson) - **Original Music Composer:** [Glenn Schellenberg](https://cinepixo.com/people/glenn-schellenberg) - **Producer:** [Alexandra Raffé](https://cinepixo.com/people/alexandra-raffe), [Anna Stratton](https://cinepixo.com/people/anna-stratton), [Louise Garfield](https://cinepixo.com/people/louise-garfield) - **Director of Photography:** [Mirosław Baszak](https://cinepixo.com/people/miros-aw-baszak) ## Cast - [Richardo Keens-Douglas](https://cinepixo.com/people/richardo-keens-douglas) - [Von Flores](https://cinepixo.com/people/von-flores) - [Dianne Heatherington](https://cinepixo.com/people/dianne-heatherington) - [Michael Callen](https://cinepixo.com/people/michael-callen) - [John Robinson](https://cinepixo.com/people/john-robinson-3) - [Normand Fauteux](https://cinepixo.com/people/normand-fauteux) - [Marla Lukofsky](https://cinepixo.com/people/marla-lukofsky) ## Criticism on CinePixo No reviews published yet. Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/zero-patience-1993 Film facts: Wikidata (Q1763158); synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Reviews, themes and notes are the work of this site's members.