When a struggling writer, HIV positive for 20+ years, accidentally deposits a $100 birthday check, he is dropped from his health plan for earning too much. In thi snew era of sort-of universal care, can he take a helpless bureaucracy but also come up with $3000 a month to buy meds on his own? Welcome to the world’s first AIDS comedy.

The new movie stars James Roday, Danny Glover, Robin Weigert, and Khandi Alexander.

“Pushing Dead” will premiere at Frameline and Outfest 2016.