Milk R
Never blend in.
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DVD Details
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 18 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: March 10, 2009
- Originally Released: 2017
- Label: Focus Features
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Sean Penn, Josh Brolin, Emile Hirsch, James Franco & Diego Luna | |
Performer: | Victor Garber & Alison Pill | |
Directed by | Gus Van Sant | |
Edited by | Elliot Graham | |
Screenwriting by | Dustin Lance Black | |
Composition by | Danny Elfman | |
Subject: | Harvey Milk | |
Produced by | Bruce Cohen & Dan Jinks | |
Director of Photography: | Harris Savides | |
Executive Production by | William Horberg, Michael London, Dustin Lance Black & Bruna Papandrea |
Major Awards:
Academy Awards 2009 -
Best Actor: Sean Penn
Academy Awards 2009 -
Best Original Screenplay: Dustin Lance Black
Entertainment Reviews:
29%
AUDIENCE SCORE
User Ratings: 149
[T]he first great film to look at civil rights from the perspective of the gay movement....It transcends any single genre as a very human document that touches first and foremost on the need to give people hope.
Hollywood Reporter
Gus Van Sant's incisive and stirring dramatization of Harvey Milk's heroic life and violent death....MILK is a fascinating film... -- Grade: A-
Entertainment Weekly
4 stars out of 5 -- [Penn] finds sufficient space amid the historical milestones to hint at the intensely private pain that underpins Milk's mission.
Empire
Rating: 4/5 --
Gus Van Sant's intimate, graceful and nostalgic portrait of gay politician Harvey Milk resonates with honesty for the period, the man, and those around him.
Full Review
Screenwize
Harvey Milk was an intriguing, inspiring figure. MILK is a marvel....A fascinating, multi-layered history lesson.
New York Times
4 stars out of 5 -- [I]t's apparent Van Sant was making any and all efforts to bring Milk's story as close to it origin points as possible. The authenticity this Oregon native provides is palpable and, at times, breathtaking.
Box Office
Ranked #1 in Rolling Stone's 'Movies Of The Year' -- [A] true political film. It finds its bristling purpose in humanity, not ideology.
Rolling Stone
3.5 stars out of 4 -- MILK has one of the finest ensemble casts this year and a magnificent, career-topping performance by Sean Penn, who disappears into the title role.
USA Today
Product Description:
MILK is director Gus Van Sant's riveting biopic about slain gay rights activist and San Francisco city supervisor Harvey Milk. Based on the politically resonant and thoroughly timely screenplay of documentarian Dustin Lance Black, Van Sant follows the arc of Milk's political awakening, from closeted Brooklyn insurance executive to doyen of San Francisco's Castro district's burgeoning gay mecca in the 1970s. Sean Penn portrays the film's hero, melting into the role with an affable flamboyance that is both spirited and eminently engaging. James Franco plays opposite Penn as Milk's supportive and easygoing boyfriend, Scott Smith. The couple's cheerful and loving rapport lends buoyancy to the film's overall message of hope as Milk ascends from grassroots community organizer to a galvanizing figurehead in the push for gay civil liberties. When Moral Majority crusader Anita Bryant forms an initiative to root out gay teachers and their supporters from public schools (Proposition 6), Milk is pitted in a bitter battle against fellow City Hall supervisor Dan White, played by Josh Brolin. While Van Sant does not deviate from the expository conventions that have defined other biopics, MILK sticks to biographically pertinent details that serve the film's underlying message of one man's idealism and conviction in the face of repression and bigotry.
Keywords:
Gay / Lesbian
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Politics
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True Story
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Injustice
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Assassination
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Big City
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Political
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Theatrical Release
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Gays
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1980s
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Biographical
Product Info
- UPC: 025195048972
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