This is a very clear and personalized presentation of the history and human impact of a seriously debilitating disease - one which we in the western world are too often tempted to think of in the past tense.
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United States 04 March 1998
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These some of the most viewed trailers for movies released in 1998:
31 December 1998
The story behind the creation of the transistor, one of the 20th century's most important inventions.
01 January 1998
A graduating college student planning to drift through Central and South America has an uphill battle with his girlfriend who has other plans for his and their lives including him becoming a stock broker.
28 February 1998
Rising pop star Mima quits singing to pursue a career as an actress. After she takes up a role on a popular detective show, her handlers and collaborators begin turning up murdered.
25 November 1998
On behalf of "oppressed bugs everywhere," an inventive ant named Flik hires a troupe of warrior bugs to defend his bustling colony from a horde of freeloading grasshoppers led by the evil-minded Hopper.
18 September 1998
When Hong Kong Inspector Lee is summoned to Los Angeles to investigate a kidnapping, the FBI doesn't want any outside help and assigns cocky LAPD Detective James Carter to distract Lee from the case.
09 February 1998
1962. Joseph, 13 years old, a choirboy and a true "light" of religion, set out to become Pope. Not less.
07 August 1998
Passion and infatuation ignite as two lovers flounder through their "first time" in this alarmingly sexy film set in the Louisiana bayou.
12 March 1998
This is a film about the life of a family of marginal thiefs, and how destiny punishes each and every one of its members.
01 January 1998
A bloodthirsty thief who cuts off the ears of his enemies must face against the vengeful wrath of two of his victims.
01 October 1998
Karis (Nicole Oliver) is a clothing store owner who picks up a handsome music executive, Lars (Christopher Shyer), in a bar and immediately engages him in some very hot sex that leads to an ongoing physical relationship.
10 June 1998
A team of high school idiots are hired by a suburban mad scientist to track down and destroy a rogue zombie.
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