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Philadelphia (1993)
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"It’s already been called the most important civil rights film of the decade, but only time will tell if Milk has any real impact on the gay marriage issue or any other related civil rights matter. Obviously the film, which is set thirty years in the past, can be appropriated by the campaign to overturn Proposition 8, but if that campaign is successful, it will be difficult to prove with certainty Milk contributed to the end result. The Birth of a Nation may have inspired a reformation of the Ku Klux Klan and Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner may have opened some minds to wider acceptance of interracial marriage (which had just recently been legalized). However, as Time magazine reported earlier this year, it’s quite rare for cinema to really change the world. A "
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"It’s been more than 100 years since the Philadelphia Quakers changed their name to the Philadelphia Philadelphians, which was thankfully shortened to “Phillies” very quickly, probably by printers who were afraid of using up all of their ‘P’s in the printing press. Since being founded in 1883, they’ve been one of the most tenacious teams in baseball, winning six pennants, and the World Series in 1980. In fact, in all of American sports (not just baseball), the Phillies are the team that’s been in one city with one name for the longest time. They’re one game away from another World Series win tonight, despite being the Major League team with the most losses in history. We celebrate their scrappiness with a list of quintessential Philadelphia movies. Check them out after the break.
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"In a crowded year for Best Actress contention, Anne Hathaway could be the only first-timer to receive an Oscar nomination in the lead category, possibly going up against mainstays such as her Devil Wears Prada costar Meryl Streep and Kate Winslet, as well as the less-nominated vets Nicole Kidman and Kristen Scott Thomas. Her main competition for the outsider, dark horse position is Frozen River’s Melissa Leo (who may benefit from her film’s initiatory screener campaign even though River’s theatrical release was early and hardly noticed), and Happy-Go-Lucky’s Sally Hawkins, whose film just debuted to favorable reviews citing her brilliant (as in talented and bright) performance. But Hathaway is sure to be the victor –– even though her performance in Rachel Gettin "
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"Jonathan Demme has had an extremely successful career ever since directing Caged Heat in 1974. He won the Oscar for Best Director in 1992 with Silence of the Lambs, and helped Tom Hanks act his way to a Best Actor Oscar for Philadelphia. He’s also directed things as varied as a Saturday Night Live episode in 1980, the Talking Heads documentary Stop Making Sense, and Neil Young: Heart of Gold, with a new Young movie on the way in next year’s Trunk Show. Rachel Gettin "
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"Philadelphia is an obnoxious and offensive movie that pretends to be a great liberal statement, but doesn't even have the courage of its own conviction. It's main character is a homosexual in a monogamous relationship, but the couple are never even shown holding hands. It would be awful if this supposedly liberal plea for tolerance offended the heterosexual majority. The movie is the kind of garbage that Steven Spielberg is often accused of making, but rarely does himself, but Philadelphia also lacks Spielberg's visual mastery. The director, Jonathon Demme, made the great horror film The Silence of Lambs but has struck out on other occasions, such as his pointless remake of The Manchurian Candidate and this movie. Oscar historian Charles Mathews speculated that Demme made this film as an apology to the gay community for making Silence, which had a transve "
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"Philadelphia, starring Tom Hanks, Denzel Washington, and Mary Steenburgen, is a gripping movie. Very, very few films will I watch a second time, even with years intervening. Although I do not have any particular attachment to the AIDS issue, this movie made me entirely sympathetic by emphasizing an angle we can all identify with—injustice. "
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