June 18, 2016 (Frameline)
Pushing Dead is a 2016 American independent comedy drama film written and directed by Tom E. Brown and starring James Roday Rodriguez, Danny Glover, Robin Weigert and Khandi Alexander. The film follows a struggling writer, HIV positive for 20+ years, who deposits a $100 birthday check and is dropped from his health plan for earning too much.
Storyline
When a struggling writer, HIV positive for 20+ years, accidentally deposits a $100 birthday check, he is dropped from his health plan for earning too much. In this new era of sort-of universal care, can he take on a helpless bureaucracy or come up with $3000 a month to buy meds on his own?