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Milk

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Special features: deleted scenes; remembering Harvey; Hollywood comes to San Francisco; marching for Equality.
Sean Penn, Emile Hirsch, Josh Brolin, Diego Luna, James Franco, Alison Pill, Victor Garber.
His life changed history, his courage changed lives. Harvey Milk is a middle-aged New Yorker who, after moving to San Francisco, becomes a Gay Rights activist and city politician. On his third attempt, he is elected to San Francisco's Board of Supervisors in 1977, the first openly-gay man to be elected to public office in the United States. The following year, both he and the city's mayor, George Moscone, are shot to death by former city supervisor, Dan White, who blames his former colleagues for denying White's attempt to rescind his resignation from the board. Based on the true story of Harvey Milk.
DVD, region 1, anamorphic widescreen (1.85:1) presentation; Dolby Digital 5.1 surround, dual-layer, NTSC.

COMMUNITY REVIEWS

local? submitted by lekendrick on September 24, 2010, 11:47am it speaks to activism the movie on scale is only hampered in protest scenes the mix sexuality of politics is very scatter brained on film as well a problem the reality of subject! You've feeling something underneath milk is deeply troubling or troubled! Little done to capture that! As he'd have wished an documentary footage would have posed! It's a party affair careful attention paid the negroid amongst an cast however the honest portrait! It's exclusively caucasoid, or europoid males locked in a human rights fight! Only to spontaneously combust! Penn for his part is paint by numbers more than capable, it's perhaps in, god bless the dead! A personal tale littered suicide, insistent a vernacular, leading some place unknown, but promised! Technically superior in the visual tips given through use of preexisting documentary footage combined high definition a film that does more than it's part advance independent movement! While of course nominated for being through industry affair it's ultimately the weight of movie to be watched! An academy award for cause movie: failing; not highlight, but prove point!

Pretty good. But the documentary’s better. submitted by lisa on July 13, 2019, 2:04am The nonfiction makes a fine story on its own, too.

Great movie submitted by crp on August 13, 2019, 8:48pm A great watch- highly recommend. Based on true events.

Far from Van Sant's Best, But Still Great submitted by shira.pilarski on July 18, 2020, 10:26pm Sean Penn's performance is wonderful, but of course it is -- he's a great actor. The film is historically accurate, but of course it is -- Van Sant pulled most of it from the documentary this film is based on. One of the film's greatest strengths is in showing Harvey Milk for the flawed man he was. In one particularly compelling moment, Harvey Milk shames a young man working on his campaign who hasn't come out to his family. Milk's partner calls him a hypocrite, because Milk himself was super closeted until he was 40.

Important history submitted by Beatlesfan04 on July 16, 2022, 10:08pm This is still such an inspiring and important movie. It tells a very important part of queer history that should not be forgotten. It is still relevant today.

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SERIES
Focus Features four-star collection.


LANGUAGE OPTIONS
Dialogue in English with optional soundtrack in French, and with optional French or Spanish subtitles; English subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing.

PUBLISHED
Universal City, Calif. : Universal Studios Home Entertainment, c2009.
Year Published: 2009
Description: 1 videodisc (129 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language: English
Format: DVD

ADDITIONAL CREDITS
Cohen, Bruce.
Jinks, Dan.
London, Michael.
Black, Dustin Lance.
Van Sant, Gus.
Penn, Sean, 1960-
Hirsch, Emile, 1985-
Brolin, Josh.
Luna, Diego, 1979-
Franco, James, 1978-
Pill, Alison, 1985-
Garber, Victor.
Focus Features.
Axon Films.
Groundswell Productions.
Jinks/Cohen Company.
Universal Studios Home Entertainment (Firm)

SUBJECTS
Milk, Harvey -- Drama.
Moscone, George, -- d. 1978 -- Drama.
San Francisco (Calif.). -- Board of Supervisors -- Drama.
Gay rights -- San Francisco -- Drama.
Assassination -- San Francisco -- Drama.
Biographical films.
Historical films.
Films for the hearing impaired.
Feature films.
Fiction films.