Gay yuppie Robert (John Bolger) accepts an assignment in Africa that will put his strained relationship with his lover, Michael (Richard Ganoung), in limbo for the next few years. Michael, meanwhile, tends the needs of his ex, Nick (Steve Buscemi), whose punk band's video is getting MTV airplay even as he battles HIV and bittersweet memories in a claustrophobic apartment. After a farewell dinner thrown by Robert's foppish boss and his luminous wife, Michael and Robert fret and frolic with a host of Manhattan hipsters at a party thrown by their artist friend Joan (Kathy Kinney). These various crowd scenes set the stage for a series of one-on-one interactions that explore the romantic and other tensions of early AIDS-era Manhattan without offering too many easy resolutions. Buscemi would become an indie regular, while Kinney would go on to achieve fame on The Drew Carey Show in the 1990s. ~ Brian J. Dillard, All Movie Guide.

Cleveland's favorite son Drew Carey stars as Cleveland's favorite son Drew Carey in the first season of the popular ABC sitcom bearing his name. Of course, Carey does not really play himself, a successful standup comedian: The TV version of Drew Carey is the long-suffering, overworked and underpaid assistant personnel director at Cleveland's fictional Winfred-Louder department store. Given the choice, Drew would rather spend all his time at home or at the Warsaw Tavern with his lifelong best friends: hoydenish, perennially unemployed Kate O'Brien (Christa Miller), geekish DrugCo janitor and sci-fi aficionado Lewis Kiniski (Ryan Stiles), and erstwhile deejay Oswald Harvey (Diedrich Bader), who in the course of the first season launches a lengthy if unrewarding job at Global Parcel Service. These are the regulars in the first episode, soon to be joined by Kathy Kinney as Drew's mortal enemy, the garishly outfitted and cosmetically challenged Mimi Bombeck. Originally, Mimi was to have been a one-shot character,