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    • Philadelphia movie review & film summary (1994) | Roger Ebert
      • "Philadelphia" is a good movie, and sometimes more than that, and the Hanks performance (which, after all, really exists outside the plot) is one of the best of the year. Sooner or later, Hollywood had to address one of the most important subjects of our time, and with "Philadelphia" the ice has been broken.
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  2. Jan 14, 1994 · "Philadelphia" is a good movie, and sometimes more than that, and the Hanks performance (which, after all, really exists outside the plot) is one of the best of the year. Sooner or later, Hollywood had to address one of the most important subjects of our time, and with "Philadelphia" the ice has been broken.

  3. Jonathan Rosenbaum Chicago Reader Philadelphia is a heartbreakingly mediocre movie. It’s dishonest, it’s often legally, medically, and politically inaccurate, and it breaks my heart that I ...

    • (4.7K)
    • Jonathan Demme
    • PG-13
    • Tom Hanks
  4. 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...

  5. 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 ...

    • $26 million
  6. Dec 7, 2018 · Trudy Ring. December 06 2018 5:04 AM EST. Philadelphia, the first major studio film about AIDS, chronicles an important time in LGBTQ history -- and underlines the truth of William Faulkner's...

  7. www.metacritic.com › movie › philadelphiaPhiladelphia - Metacritic

    Dec 23, 1993 · Philadelphia is a slight and cliche film about an important topic, which is really unfortunate. Though Denzel Washington and Tom Hanks are terrific in the film, Philadelphia never diverts from courtroom drama cliches enough to really breathe life into the film.

  8. Jan 14, 1994 · 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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