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Zero Patience is a Canadian musical comedy film directed by John Greyson and released in 1993.

The major notable feature of this film is that it refutes the urban legend of the alleged introduction of AIDS to North America by a single individual, Gaëtan Dugas, better known as Patient Zero. In this sense, it is a response to Randy Shilts's book And The Band Played On, which played a principal role in the spreading of this misconception (although it should be noted that Shilts did not claim that Dugas was the first to bring the virus to North America).

The film stars John Robinson as anthropologist Sir Richard Francis Burton. This intentional anachronism places Burton, whose real-life work included extensive studies comparing penis size in European and African populations, in a modern context as a closeted gay man.

Burton, now the curator of a museum of natural history, is eager to capture Patient Zero (Normand Fauteux) for his Hall of Contagion. However, he gradually comes to realize the problems with the Patient Zero hypothesis, and begins to fall in love with Zero.

The cast also includes Marla Lukofsky as a singing African green monkey, Ann Medina (a real-life Canadian television journalist) as a television reporter, and Michael Callen as an anthropomorphized HIV virus. The film also includes one of the most intensely controversial scenes in the history of Canadian film, in which two claymation anuses sing a song debating the merits of anal sex.

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