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Milk (2008)
description written by member Zara:
Academy Award winner Sean Penn stars in this fact-based drama about Harvey Milk, the openly gay activist and San Francisco politician who was murdered along with mayor George Moscone (Victor Garber) by disgruntled city employee Dan White (Josh Brolin) in 1978. Director Gus Van Sant's compelling biopic co-stars Emile Hirsch, James Franco and Diego Luna.
| Release Date: | November 26th, 2008 |
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| Written By: |  | Dustin Lance Black |
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Milk Movie Review by Zara  (3/12/2009) |
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This movie is paced so quickly and so seamlessly that it impressed me that I didn't feel an inch of its two hour length. I've watched longer movies that have done the same, granted, but this movie does it with such impeccable style and class that it's amazing just for that fact alone.
I'm a proud Californian who hasn't...
(complete Milk review by Zara)
| Milk Movie Review by BillyBob (7/1/2009) |
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Bigotry. Hatred. Intolerance.
The truth is, if I were to take the movies of today that are decidedly 'gay' in theme at face value, then I would, most definitely, be under the clear impression that homosexuals were the only people on the face of this whole planet who didn't possess such 'very human' traits like prejudice,...
(complete Milk review by BillyBob)
| Milk Movie Review by Krissy (3/29/2009) |
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I originally rented this movie because of the content. I believe that being gay is wrong in the eyes of God but people are still people and deserve to be understood. One thing though that most people tend to forget when they start talking fire and damnation to gay people is that God says to love. This movie for me really...
(complete Milk review by Krissy)
I won't go into the legacy of Harvey Milk except to say that he was a champion for the LGBT community, especially in his efforts to get everyone to be honest and come out of the closet so that all of us could see that we had friends, relatives, teachers, and others in our lives that were gay, and that was OK.
I won't say...
(complete Milk review by Movie Addict)
| Milk Movie Review by Ben (12/31/2008) |
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"Milk" is a longtime dream project of Gus Van Sant, and it looks at the late Harvey Milk who became America's first openly gay man ever elected to political office. It follows him from when he moves from New York to the Castro district of San Francisco and the numerous races he ran for political office. It culminates with...
(complete Milk review by Ben)
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