>>>It showed how coming from nothing you could make something of yourself and overcome drinking and drugs.>>>
And two people who cheated and left families for their own selfish reasons.
Sounds like a gay version of The Hours.
Full Disclosure: Anyone else here think a better title for Brokeback Mountain would have been Chitty Chitty Bang-Bang ?? -- "starring Sally Anne (how?) and Dick van Dyke"
Cheers!