Rock Hudson: All That Heaven Allowed, trailer

Rock Hudson: All That Heaven Allowed is an intimate portrait of actor Rock Hudson, one of Hollywoods most celebrated leading men of the 1950s and 60s and an icon of Hollywoods Golden Age, whose diagnosis and eventual death from AIDS in 1985 shocked the world, subsequently shifting the way the public perceived the AIDS pandemic. Born Roy Fitzgerald and renamed Rock Hudson by his agent, with his 65 frame, strong physique and chiseled good looks, Hudson was the embodiment of romantic masculinity and heterosexuality. The film explores the story of a man living a double life, one whose public persona was carefully manufactured by his handlers and orchestrated by the studio system, while fearing a potentially careerending discovery that he was privately living as a gay man. directed by Stephen Kijak, 2023