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Jan 14, 1994 · It's a ground-breaker like "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner" (1967), the first major film about an interracial romance; it uses the chemistry of popular stars in a reliable genre to sidestep what looks like controversy. The story involves Hanks as Andrew Beckett, a skillful lawyer in a big, old-line Philadelphia law firm.
Dec 30, 2021 · Analysis: Philadelphia (1993) Deramin Media Analysis, Queer Studies, Reviews December 30, 2021 10 Minutes. Gay lawyer Andy Beckett (Tom Hanks) sues his former employer for discrimination because he was fired for having AIDS. He asks Joe Miller (Denzel Washington) to represent him. Joe initially refuses due to his own prejudices, but reconsiders ...
Dec 22, 1993 · A stirring montage of Philadelphia street life, accompanied by a mournfully beautiful new Bruce Springsteen song, offers a resounding sense of vitality and communal obligation.
- Jonathan Demme
Philadelphia is a 1993 American legal drama film written by Ron Nyswaner, directed by Jonathan Demme and starring Tom Hanks and Denzel Washington. [2] Filmed on location in its namesake city, it tells the story of attorney Andrew Beckett (Hanks) who comes to ask a personal injury attorney, Joe Miller (Washington), to help him sue his former ...
Synopsis. Andrew Beckett (Tom Hanks) is a senior associate at the largest corporate law firm in Philadelphia. Although he lives with his partner Miguel Álvarez (Antonio Banderas), Beckett is not open about his homosexuality at the law firm, nor the fact that he has AIDS.
Philadelphia was the first major studio film to face the AIDS crisis head-on. Though the industry had lost countless people to AIDS—most famously, Rock Hudson in 1985—there was tremendous ...
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Jonathan Demme's pathbreaking film about AIDS puts a human face on one of its victims and indelibly carves into our consciousness the personal costs of this disease. Tom Hanks gives a stirring performance as Andrew Beckett, a man whose life force is drained away before our eyes.
