Excellent. Powerful. Especially in the exposure of homophobia in society.
It was... too much for me. You better HAVE a box of Kleenex nearby.
Excerpt: At the time of its release, Jonathan Demme's Philadelphia was the first big-budget Hollywood film to tackle the medical, political and social issues of AIDS. Tom Hanks, in his first Academy Award-winning performance, plays Andrew Beckett, a talented lawyer at a stodgy Philadelphia law firm. Andrew has contracted AIDS but fears informing his firm about the disease.
Tom Hanks, Denzel Washington
http://movies.aol.com/movie/philadelphia/8666/synopsis
Saturday, February 17, 2007
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