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Philadelphia
Andrew Beckett is handsome but gay. Andrew works as a talented lawyer in a Philadelphia law firm and is probably successful in his field, but he will go through very difficult circumstances. Because Andrew was infected with AIDS, he was released because his colleagues were afraid of contracting AIDS after learning about it. After a while, Andrew is thinking of hiring a gay lawyer as the only defender of a lawsuit that seems to be illegal for some. Andrew is struggling to prove to everyone that he is not mistaken in the face of many criticisms.
10 June 1965, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
14 March 1925, USA
1969, Westbury, New York, USA
30 January 1956, Holyoke, Massachusetts, USA
9 December 1948, Latham, New York, USA
4 October 1941, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
10 August 1960, Málaga, Málaga, Andalucía, Spain
1956, Evanston, Illinois, USA
29 March 1987, New Jersey, USA
18 February 1947, New York City, New York, USA
December 18, 2010
Moving, Oscared '90s drama fostered AIDS empathy.
October 25, 2005
The courtroom stuff is unwieldly, but everything else is brave and moving.
January 01, 2000
Philadelphia breaks no new dramatic ground ... And yet Philadelphia is quite a good film, on its own terms.
May 29, 2013
What remains most striking about Philadelphia may be the...conspicuous emphasis on intense close-ups. They force an inescapable emotional intimacy in relation to issues the mainstream, at least at the time, would rather have looked away from. [Blu-ray]
August 26, 2005
involving but badly cliched
June 24, 2006
Safe and apolitical it may be, but Philadelphia succeeds as a deeply affecting humanist drama.
April 21, 2006
Wearing its heart on its sleeves, this well-intentioned but soft and compromised AIDS drama may nonetheless perform the same function that Paltoon or Schindler's List have: Change public opinion about an urgent problem.
June 14, 2015
Jonathan Demme's thoughtful human drama was certainly not the first movie to confront the AIDS crisis, but it was, even in the conventional skin of a courtroom drama, the most heartbreaking and passionate undertaking of its kind.
May 20, 2003
"Philadelphia" mostly succeeds in being forceful, impassioned and moving, sometimes even rising to the full range of emotion that its subject warrants. But too often, even at its most assertive, it works in safely predictable ways.
October 10, 2008
[An] extremely well-made message picture about tolerance, justice and discrimination is pitched at mainstream audiences, befitting its position as the first major Hollywood film to directly tackle the disease.
January 01, 2000
This AIDS courtroom drama is so pumped full of nitrous oxide, you could get your teeth drilled on it.