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Philadelphia
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Andrew Beckett is handsome but gay. Andrew works as a talented lawyer in a Philadelphia law firm and is probably successful in his field, but he will go through very difficult circumstances. Because Andrew was infected with AIDS, he was released because his colleagues were afraid of contracting AIDS after learning about it. After a while, Andrew is thinking of hiring a gay lawyer as the only defender of a lawsuit that seems to be illegal for some. Andrew is struggling to prove to everyone that he is not mistaken in the face of many criticisms.
Andrew Beckett is handsome but gay. Andrew works as a talented lawyer in a Philadelphia law firm and is probably successful in his field, but he will go through very difficult circumstances. Because Andrew was infected with AIDS, he was released because his colleagues were afraid of contracting AIDS after learning about it. After a while, Andrew is thinking of hiring a gay lawyer as the only defender of a lawsuit that seems to be illegal for some. Andrew is struggling to prove to everyone that he is not mistaken in the face of many criticisms.
Actors:
Kathryn Witt,
Molly Hickok,
Harry Northup,
John T. OConnell,
Robert Ridgely,
David Drake,
Chandra Wilson
Kathryn Witt
30 November 1950, Miami, Florida, USA
Molly Hickok
Harry Northup
2 September 1940, Amarillo, Texas, USA
John T. OConnell
Robert Ridgely
24 December 1931, Teaneck, New Jersey, USA
David Drake
27 June 1963, Edgewood, Maryland, USA
Chandra Wilson
27 August 1969, Houston, Texas, USA
Genre:
Drama
Country:
United States
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"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.
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This AIDS courtroom drama is so pumped full of nitrous oxide, you could get your teeth drilled on it.
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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.
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.
January 01, 2000
Philadelphia breaks no new dramatic ground ... And yet Philadelphia is quite a good film, on its own terms.
Capital Times (Madison, WI)
October 25, 2005
The courtroom stuff is unwieldly, but everything else is brave and moving.
June 24, 2006
Safe and apolitical it may be, but Philadelphia succeeds as a deeply affecting humanist drama.
June 14, 2015
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.