Craig Lucas, Dying Gaul

Award-winning playwright and screenwriter Craig Lucas (Longtime Companion, Prelude to a Kiss, Reckless) makes a distinguished feature film directing bow with an adaptation of his '90s stage drama, The Dying Gaul. Lucas, who was abandoned at birth in Atlanta, Goergia, and adopted by a Pennsylvania couple, often covers the combustible emotional mix of love and loss in his work, and The Dying Gaul, which features a powerhouse trio of Patricia Clarkson, Campbell Scott and Peter Sarsgaard, is no exception. Writing about a world he knows all too well - Hollywood, screenwriters, compromises and deception, AIDS, gays, bisexuals, heightened with a dash of homicide - Lucas has fashioned a compelling work, marked by the intensity and humor he shows in this highly uncensored interview. The title, incidentally, refers to the ancient sculpture on view in Rome (28 minutes).

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