Golden Goose

2023 AME CAPSTONE
not credited- Skye Goldbaum (props)

[@mgarza3596]

My boyfriend/husband Richard was diagnosed with AIDS about 4 months after we had been together. He feared i would dump him like many lovers were doing in the 80’s during the AIDS crisis. I promised him we would stay together, thats what lovers do. He lost everything so he moved in with me and i took care of him for 7 years till he passed away one early Friday morning. To this day i still cherish every day i had with him, Richard R.I.P.

[@johnstephen2869]

You are a gem and this world would be great if more of you existed. I’m guessing that you were raised in a kind loving home, and this carries on through you. Take care.

[@anonymous-pu7nl]

You gave him the most loving 7 years of his life

[@chuckersimsII]

Sorry for your loss hope you find happiness in the future

[@leslieswiman4813]

SO SORRY FOR YOUR LOSS 😢

[@roderickfiske4769]

🙏❤

[@TravisLobsinger]

Here I am 45 years old and tears running down my face after watching this beautiful story.

[@chrismuller9289]

same here by an 60yo one

[@redjupiter2]

I am 64 years old and I am bawling like a baby

[@chrismnutone8421]

@@redjupiter2, I am 71 and have you beat with 2 boxes of Kleenex. Great film

[@nicolasericson4207]

75 in my case and weeping shamelessly

[@tonkraaijenhagen9572]

BE HAPPY; YOU HAVE A GOOD HART !

[@johnstephen2869]

Lots of stories involve bad parents, parents who judge. There are many good mums and dads out there and it’s nice to recognise them too. A lovely moving story well told.

[@summergain]

The empty seat on the blanket. Makes me think of so many that are no longer on this earth with me. Some because they are old like me, others to cancer or gun shots or drugs or HIV. So many that had so much left to share with the rest of us

[@smile4ever938]

This is so beautiful. I'm literally crying. Thank you so much to the entire team for this beautiful film.

[@emendoza1386]

During the Aids Crisis of the 80s, I tried several times to be there for friends but most of them were too afraid of getting close to someone as they knew what was in store for them. I am one of the few lucky ones that never got the disease, but the pain of losing so many friends and acquantances still hurt and I am pushing 70. Watching and hearing the horror stories of people abandoning those that were sick (alot were family members) still make me angry. Your Movie was a Breath of Fresh Air...seeing someone that cares and loves someone when they are needing them in their lives was Amazing. Thank You so very much.

[@victordcabral3985]

YUP! You went and did it! You opened up the flood gates. This was awesome! Touching on many levels. Thomas & Spencer maneuvered through their characters so well. I didn't want this one to end.

[@Erin-Thor]

I had to watch this twice, as it is absolutely incredible and amazing! ❤❤❤ Thank you for posting this!

[@impression20]

I agree.I also had to watch it twice.

[@shadowdancer9830]

Sigh...😭😭😭

[@captainyossarian388]

Right in the feels. Great job by all involved. 👍👍👍🏳‍🌈

[@brianmoore6306]

Great short! Sometimes people forget how much of an inpact words can have. Why did he need to tell the story about how in the end it was horrible to have cancer...People can sometimes be so insensitive..without realizing how powerful and hurtful words can be. Thanks for sharing this movie. We can all learn from some things!

[@danielweir67]

my God, that was heart wrenching. you never know what's going on in someone's life. well acted by ALL three. thank you for posting Elle. ❤❤

[@juancarlosjc1101]

Thank you for this well done and beautiful story. I wish we could have seen them kiss and tell each other "I LOVE YOU". The wonderful father gained a son and someone to take care of and help him thru the loss of his son . Beautifully made. ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@johnathonf1]

So very well done. Not gonna lie, definitely teared up. Great job to all. A great short to say the least!! Go big Elle Mazer, you've shown an amazing part of yourself!

[@lynn-michaelanthony8097]

Having fought cancer since I was four and having lost numerous friends aka other patients this touched me so much!!

[@iupiter.161]

that was so beautiful, moving, lovely, and so much more! Thank you 🧡

[@davidadkison4702]

I am 73 and I lost a very good friend in the 80’s to AIDS his parents didn’t understand him and his Dad almost rejected him. He was so hurt by the way he got treated. He would often come to my house and we would cry together for his dad.

[@terrybacot3858]

WOW what a beautiful film. Well done! Could have been so sad, but in the end he didn't have to worry about dad.

[@jfk226]

That was a tear-jerker as well as well written, superbly acted and sweet. Thank you for making it! In my top 5.

[@JLD1960]

i worked a nursing jome in the eighties a patient came on with aids he had a boyriend who loved him very much his parents refused to let him vist even tho they both begged to be together so whenever they left for the nite i called him and snuck him in so they could be togegther i was his personal care givet so i got away with it when he was on his deathbed i called his noyfriend and he died peacefully in his boyfriends arm .never ever regretted my decision wanted him to be happy during this hard time jis boyfriend died a few years later and he had asked jis family if i could be his care giver for he knew i did not care about the disease i cared about him personally wonder wonder young man it was my pleasure to have taken care of him and his boyfriend thank gid they were able to be buried next to each other and i visit their graves every week they just pulled one heasrt strings and we cared and loved each other like family. ❤. miss their loving spirits ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@stevejacobs8375]

You truly are a wonderful person !💖💓😇

[@coolvoice7]

You’re an extraordinary human being, you may not see it like that, but your compassion brought comfort and some joy and that’s worth more than a king’s ransom. I applaud you 👏👏❤️❤️👍

[@dr.saurabhmishra2046]

You are the kind of angel everyone needs....

[@matthewgordon3281]

Ok, you just brought me to ugly crying in under 20 minutes. That was beautifully done, so much conveyed in so little time, great writing, great acting, great everything.

[@davidfryer9359]

This was so good. It reminds me of the strength in every close friend I watched die in the 1980 and 90’s. Each one of them affected me in such deep ways. After all of these personal losses I am still alive and healthy. Why don’t I ever get sick. I tested positive for COVID for a month and never had a symptom except lethargy. I don’t understand. I watched this with tears for the hero’s in my life. They live forever inside me.

[@KC-rd6en]

Thank you for such a heartwarming film 👍👍👍

[@otismack]

Wow what a sad film. So touching and brilliantly acted. Congratulations to everybody involved in making this.

[@d.j.7069]

Dalton gained a job and a good dad!

[@definitelynotmayah]

you have no idea how much this made me cry. i lost someone very close to be to cancer and it broke me. its so difficult watching someone you love so much just fade away and then one day be gone. thank you for making this, it was so sweet and I really enjoyed it

[@fauzianalwoga1002]

I feel you

[@zahirahussain5061]

So sad...yet he got some happiness in the end😢

[@timothyhoran9521]

Beautiful, thank you

[@robbrent]

Wonderful and it deserves so much more attention.

[@ernestorivas2495]

OMG, this is such a beautiful film! Great direction and performances. Keep up the great work!

[@ballz3334]

Love how they played such a underrated song from the neighbourhood at the beginning😭🫶

[@raysonh4896]

That was the neighborhood? whoah

[@michaelolivero1626]

Gods! I was not expecting to be this wrecked. Beautiful. Gotta go finish crying

[@johnrobinson2552]

Very good! Well worth watching too! Thanks!❤

[@erickulas6492]

Omg adding Scott Street to the end made me sob

[@alwaysuseless]

I wasn't looking for a good cry, but thank you for sharing this. Now I need to watch something funny or upbeat.

[@janeprince656]

So sad to see on your channel you haven't made more films. This one is amazing Ms Mazer. You have a great talent.

[@wonkat.v.7427]

Damn this hit me right in the heart but such a beautiful story

[@impression20]

What a beautiful and sensitive movie/story.Well done.

[@kharmaiz]

What a beautiful, sweet story. ❤️ Loved hearing “The Neighborhood” in the beginning. I know I’m going to watch this more than once. OMG, I just noticed that you directed this. Have you submitted this to any film festivals? It really is so good.

[@dmd911disp]

Yes, you should definitely submit this to any and film festivals that you can. It's an award winner! Thank you for making this short!! Loved it!!

[@TashameeD]

I was not prepared to cry as hard as I just did. Well done, the movie was beautiful.

[@lannycummings6598]

Beautiful, moving story. The big C has touched my family far too much. Lanny, NE OH

[@daker27]

Thank you very much for creating this moving film, the ending made me cry, but the story is very beautiful because at least he spent his last months surrounded by love and his father found another adoptive son and he was not left alone.

[@SathishSathish-es1uu]

Great one , 🎉❤

[@idkomori-sv1mf]

This was a beautiful piece. I cried for a long time and have recommended it to a lot of my friends. Let me just say that this has brought a beautiful aspect of awareness.

[@monff23]

The film is so moving! I can't hold my tears everytime I watch it specially the end part.

[@vaylon1701]

wow. That hit right in the feelys. Great work.

[@dougrobnyc]

Thank you for this short. I was very meaningful for me as I had a similar life experience. Thank You!

[@freeman61]

F*&^%$G hell, that was the most beautiful story. Got me at the end. Some gremlins put onions under my desk !!!

[@VintageVaughnVehiclces]

That was really well made. Fate Lent a hand for him. My parents are so hoped they would have gotten to meet my special somebody before they died. They thought they had, but he was bi-curious and was gone in a short time that was over 20 years ago.

[@claztube]

I commented on your channel where you have the '78 LTD rear tail lamp assembly thingy ....I'd hope you're okay with this...

[@andresrvlife1386]

Very moving... Excellent!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@conradparsons1856]

Awesome!

[@alastairjamesmainland2497]

Fabulously moving film. My husband died in 2020 after 20 years an amazing guy sadly missed. This film beautifully covers a similar path, most especially that gap when they go. Brilliantly done!

[@katiebernardo5735]

this was amazing

[@mspalmboy]

Just beautiful.

[@fmaximo1979]

Totally fantastic!!!

[@shellybliese9610]

This was so good! ❤❤

[@curtisdaniel9294]

Beautiful! Thanks for this. ❤🎉😊

[@joesony5196]

happiness is fleeting ; the two character 's boys are amazing .Very sad end .

[@NormanFinkelstein9863]

Congratulations. This is special. You are special.

[@grahambaker1736]

Superb film, great content, so special to have people that love you! Thank you!

[@NewGen911]

Sometimes, you realize life is short and fate is so unfair😅😅😅 And ultimately, love is the most precious things.

[@stevenwnewell79]

Very well written and excellent Directing for this scale of a project doing almost everything with a production of this resource level possible in the directing. It was a great "meaning of Life" story also. Actors were on spot in every scene, very good. Thank you!

[@stevenwnewell79]

Thank you and blessed be!

[@andreaslindenau1190]

I expect them to fuck very soon and very rough !

[@georgeworley6927]

I almost stopped watching this excellent movie because I wasn't ready to cry as it reminds me of how sick my husband of almost 43 years is... he might not make it to our 43rd year.

[@devildawg8906]

I believe in him ❤ and I believe in you.

[@georgeworley6927]

@@devildawg8906 thank you.

[@carlmannino6360]

Wow!

[@subramanianrs318]

Beautiful 🎉❤

[@gregschneider1030]

Beautifully done. Really touching, well done film. I lost my mom to cancer seven months ago. The pain is still very real.

[@pixie99]

Thank you xxxxxxx

[@ethanyang2815]

I love how it is so much different from other film. at first I thought it was a generic gay short film, but it wasnt! it wasnt the subject at all. it was just a subplot and I love it like that! (made me cry so much too ToT)

[@edwardbenkert6394]

This makes the fifth time I have watched this oh my God such a beautiful video thank you so much

[@dickloucks8853]

Beautiful !!!

[@claudekonqui7294]

Une très belle histoire d'amitié et filmée avec beaucoup de délicatesse et d'émotion. Les jeunes acteurs sont vraiment excellents. Merci pour ce beau court-métrage et bravo à vous et à toute votre équipe, scénariste, comédiens et techniciens.

[@edwinicq]

just realized i havent seen young people with oxygen tanks in any movies or shows before. And a flip phone?

[@robgillespie1711]

Beautiful story and great film!

[@nichill7474]

Great short. Story was compelling.

[@Timothygillespie-ot7nv]

This is one of the most beautiful story of the young man that made a friend and they will always be friends

[@GayNation]

This was so beautiful 😢 this should be made into a movie

[@billybilly6574]

How bittersweet! Lovely story

[@RolfTheCat]

I love this, I’ve rewatched it so many times-!! And the guy with black hair really looks like cavetowns lead singer-!! 😻

[@ninocaruana945]

Loved it well done all involved

[@lawrenceharris7369]

Beautiful movie, and of course I did cry.

[@edwardbenkert6394]

What a beautiful video thank you

[@user-wr5tn9pe2t]

What a beautiful story, thank you for reminding us about love 🫶

[@Windy-bw2ym]

If I ever need it o fake cry I can watch this but then I start actually crying because this is just so beautiful

[@edwardbenkert6394]

It is such a beautiful video thank you so much

[@fauzianalwoga1002]

Recently lost my mom and I remember how much pain she went through like it was yesterday. It hurts and now am a motherless daughter and everyone doesn't understand my pain

[@justineves3588]

Very very great epic video I like it a lot very very great job love is love 😊❤

[@hovadamian.]

🙌🙌🙌

[@sirdavidoftor3413]

Very well done! Brilliant! Just a suggestion: there are many gay/ lesbian film festivals that you can submit this video to. I hope, if you do, you win many awards! While C is a b*tch, it can teach us some very important lessons and growth! When I was in my early 20’s, my mom was in palliative care. Since she was in a city that wasn’t her home, my siblings and I made sure that there was someone from the family there with her. I had the night shift, since I was in school. I remember watching her sleep, and it caused me to re evaluate my life, and how short life can be. I needed to be who I was, not who I was pretending to be. The whole experience changed me… and sent me on my journey to being happy! Thanks Mom …. Miss you Stay safe, stay sane, stay strong 🏳️‍🌈

[@davidbiela4464]

THE MOVIE ALWAYS MKES ME TEARY EYED AND REALLY FEEL IN LOVE WITH BOTH THE YOUNG ACTORS, AND I CRY BUT I STILL WATCH THE MOVIE OVER AND OVER AND OVER AGAIN AND WHEN I WANT TOO WATCH IT I GET UPSET WITH ALL THE OTHER MOVIES THAT ARE I GO THRU TO FIND it, I HURT INSIDE..

[@agimsenko8223]

Quando le emozioni bllocano le parole, dai occhi scorrono soltanto le lacrime. Bel film Una lezione di vita per tutti . "Love Is love " e può essere manifestato in tutto le maniere.

[@lukabogdanhodgson]

Wow! This made me cry soooo much. very good x

[@leonduplessis]

This was so heartwarming and I loved the acting. Thank you for this video.

[@williammaloney8434]

Lovely but sad at the same time

[@vanitharevathiM]

Super 😍😍😍😍😍 movie name

[@MrRafaelnarvaez]

Saludos muy buen trabajo debes seguir porque quienes vimos la película (5 personas en grupo) consideramos que es excelente *****

[@paulmannion9048]

My first crush was in the scouts, when we were 15, and the next big camp came around I found out he had died in a lake, I went really mad that no one told me! Broke my heart 💔

[@1phildefer323]

De France......Touché avec une flèche de Cupidon en plein coeur.......

[@MJLR138]

Very well done!

[@jockstrap6179]

Beautiful. Tender and sweet.

[@Matopath9]

Lovely.!. Congratulations to everyone involved.

[@Joe1935429]

The point was made beautifully, sensitively, and, unmistakably.