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Jan 14, 1994 · Philadelphia: Directed by Jonathan Demme. With Tom Hanks, Denzel Washington, Roberta Maxwell, Buzz Kilman. When a man with HIV is fired by his law firm because of his condition, he hires a homophobic-small time lawyer as the only willing advocate for a wrongful dismissal suit.
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- Drama
- Jonathan Demme
- 1994-01-14
- The Truth About Charlie
- Swing Shift
- Fighting Mad
- Rachel Getting Married
- Caged Heat
- A Master Builder
- Last Embrace
- Crazy Mama
- The Manchurian Candidate
- Ricki and The Flash
Here’s the thing: moment by moment, The Truth About Charlie is just as enjoyable as anything else that Demme has done – it’s full of zippy camerawork that combines the stately austerity of something like The Silence of the Lambs with the looser, more handheld mode of Rachel Getting Married. And Thandie Newton, as the latest Demme’s latest frazzled,...
Swing Shift is the only film of Demme’s to be taken away from him by the studio and the film’s A-list star Goldie Hawn. Hawn reportedly thought Christine Lahti was stealing the movie (Lahti still secured a deserved Oscar nomination) but Hawn told Vanity Fair that executives were nervous about the movie and forced her and her producing partner to tr...
Corman wanted to cash in on the backwoods revenge trend of the moment, with films like Walking Tall making a bundle. He turned to Demme to execute this vision for some reason. And the result is an awkward mishmash that Demme both wrote and directed, by turns fascinating and frustrating. Peter Fonda plays a man who returns to his family farm with hi...
This was the movie that put Demme back on the map – a miniscule independent feature crafted lovingly after working, mostly unsuccessfully, in the mainstream big budget world. Rachel Getting Married opened as part of the Toronto Film Festival and earned Anne Hathaway an Oscar nomination for her role as Kym, a recovering addict with mental health iss...
Demme had worked on a couple of other women-in-prison movies before he directed his own, for exploitation kingpin Roger Corman (who he had met years earlier while on a press tour for one of the other women-in-prison romps). Caged Heat is extremely trashy, and you can feel as Demme strains against the requirements of the genre while actively trying ...
Demme’s films have always been exemplified by a youthful exuberance, but A Master Builder, based on the Henrik Ibsen play (and an adaptation by co-star Andre Gregory), is consumed with death. Wallace Shawn (who also wrote the screenplay) stars as an ailing architect near the end of his life, reckoning with his choices, his work, and his extreme hor...
Commonly referred to as Demme’s “Hitchcockian thriller,” Last Embrace is actually much, much more. Roy Scheider plays a spy whose nerves are frayed after a terrorist murders his wife. Returning home to an agency that doesn’t acknowledge him (Christopher Walken appears in a truly delicious cameo as the organization’s robotic leader) and a squatter s...
The best of Demme’s Corman period, Crazy Mama is an unfettered joy. Cloris Leachman plays a woman who owns a hair salon in 1950s California with her tough-as-nails mother (Ann Sothern) and cherubic daughter (Linda Purl). When their landlord comes after them for back rent, the trio decided to hit the road and return to their ancestral home in Arkans...
Demme reteamed with his Philadelphia star Denzel Washington for this excellent, oddly overlooked remake of John Frankenheimer’s 1962 Cold War classic The Manchurian Candidate. Clearly, updating the movie for modern audiences excited Demme, as it placed it right in the middle of the fraught 2004 political landscape and filled the entire movie with t...
We did Ricky and the Flash wrong. This brilliant comedic drama, released in the dog days of summer 2015, reunites Demme with his Manchurian Candidate costar Meryl Streep, only this time he’s armed with a pitch-perfect Diablo Cody script that hits all the right notes while veering into some unexpected directions. Streep is Ricki, a Whole Foods emplo...
Director: The Silence of the Lambs. Jonathan Demme was born on 22 February 1944 in Baldwin, Long Island, New York, USA. He was a director and producer, known for The Silence of the Lambs (1991), Rachel Getting Married (2008) and Philadelphia (1993).
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Jonathan Demme was an American film director, producer and screenwriter of film and television.
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Mar 24, 1994 · Demme became an industry powerhouse himself–Goldie Hawn, beware!–with The Silence of the Lambs (1991), based on the terrifying serial-killer saga by Thomas Harris.
