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Philadelphia
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In a controversial case involving a gay man named Andrew Beckett, a talented lawyer at a law firm in Philadelphia. Andrew seems to have AIDS because of what he is doing, so he is released because his colleagues are afraid of contracting AIDS. After a while, Andrew tries to hire a young gay lawyer as the only defender of a lawsuit that seems to be illegal for everyone. Andrew tries to prove to everyone that he is not mistaken in society.
In a controversial case involving a gay man named Andrew Beckett, a talented lawyer at a law firm in Philadelphia. Andrew seems to have AIDS because of what he is doing, so he is released because his colleagues are afraid of contracting AIDS. After a while, Andrew tries to hire a young gay lawyer as the only defender of a lawsuit that seems to be illegal for everyone. Andrew tries to prove to everyone that he is not mistaken in society.
Actors:
Richard Ehrlich,
Anna Deavere Smith,
Ann Dowd,
Ford Wheeler,
Greg Pronko,
Denzel Washington,
Antonio Banderas,
Philip Joseph PJ McGee,
Robert Ridgely,
Steve Vignari,
Matthew Huffman,
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Richard Ehrlich
Anna Deavere Smith
18 September 1950, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Ann Dowd
30 January 1956, Holyoke, Massachusetts, USA
Ford Wheeler
Greg Pronko
Denzel Washington
28 December 1954, Mount Vernon, New York, USA
Antonio Banderas
10 August 1960, Málaga, Málaga, Andalucía, Spain
Philip Joseph PJ McGee
Robert Ridgely
24 December 1931, Teaneck, New Jersey, USA
Steve Vignari
14 March 1925, USA
Matthew Huffman
1970
Genre:
Drama
Director:
Jonathan Demme
Jonathan Demme
22 February 1944, Baldwin, Long Island, New York, USA
Country:
United States
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Safe and apolitical it may be, but Philadelphia succeeds as a deeply affecting humanist drama.
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Jonathan Demme's thoughtful human drama was certainly not the first movie to confront the AIDS crisis, but it was, even in the conventional skin of a courtroom drama, the most heartbreaking and passionate undertaking of its kind.
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The courtroom stuff is unwieldly, but everything else is brave and moving.
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What remains most striking about Philadelphia may be the...conspicuous emphasis on intense close-ups. They force an inescapable emotional intimacy in relation to issues the mainstream, at least at the time, would rather have looked away from. [Blu-ray]
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[An] extremely well-made message picture about tolerance, justice and discrimination is pitched at mainstream audiences, befitting its position as the first major Hollywood film to directly tackle the disease.
January 01, 2000
This AIDS courtroom drama is so pumped full of nitrous oxide, you could get your teeth drilled on it.
April 21, 2006
Wearing its heart on its sleeves, this well-intentioned but soft and compromised AIDS drama may nonetheless perform the same function that Paltoon or Schindler's List have: Change public opinion about an urgent problem.
New York Times
May 20, 2003
"Philadelphia" mostly succeeds in being forceful, impassioned and moving, sometimes even rising to the full range of emotion that its subject warrants. But too often, even at its most assertive, it works in safely predictable ways.
Common Sense Media
December 18, 2010
Moving, Oscared '90s drama fostered AIDS empathy.
January 01, 2000
Philadelphia breaks no new dramatic ground ... And yet Philadelphia is quite a good film, on its own terms.