Robert Sean Leonard, a handsome face who has sometimes proved a bland performer in the past, gives his finest performance in this poignant drama that will penetrate most people's guards with its story of Danny (Leonard) who, suffering the final stages of AIDS, has come home both to die and to bridge the gulfs that exist between him and his mother (Glenn Close). Leonard and Close are superb, greatly helped by a shining Will Sheffer script that deals in naked truth and never descends to easy sentiment. The director's a surprise: it's the wheelchair-bound Christopher Reeve, in his first film assignment since the fall that left him paralysed from the neck down.

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