Milk (Blu-ray) R
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- Rated: R
- Encoding: Region 0 (Worldwide)
- Released: July 6, 2021
- Originally Released: 2008
- Label: Universal
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:
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
Included in Entertainment Weekly's 2008 Films Of The Year -- The movie becomes a stirring primer on the participatory political process, and an unspoken exhortation to get involved.
Entertainment Weekly
Rating: 3.5/4 --
Sean Penn is remarkable as Milk, giving what could very well be the finest performance in his distinguished career.
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The Dispatch (Lexington, NC)
Rating: 3/4 --
Penn is so well-tuned that not for a minute does his Milk lapse into a caricature.
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Outlook
Penn, as we've come to expect, is extremely persuasive as someone with a different, more offbeat kind of charisma than many of his previous screen roles....Franco is a nice match for him....It's a powerful story.
Los Angeles Times
The film has a talented cast, some sharp direction and a story that is as relevant today as it was when it unfolded in the late '70s.
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Bowling Green Daily News
Rating: 4/5 --
The film itself can be taken as an act of testimony, mingling archival footage with re-enactments and immediacy with nostalgia.
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The Age (Australia)
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
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- Sales Rank: 107,454
- UPC: 810072543318
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