Milk

5.00
    Milk
    2008

    Synopsis

    The true story of Harvey Milk, the first openly gay man ever elected to public office. In San Francisco in the late 1970s, Harvey Milk becomes an activist for gay rights and inspires others to join him in his fight for equal rights that should be available to all Americans.

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    Cast

    • Sean PennHarvey Milk
    • Emile HirschCleve Jones
    • Josh BrolinDan White
    • Diego LunaJack Lira
    • James FrancoScott Smith
    • Alison PillAnne Kronenberg
    • Victor GarberMayor Moscone
    • Denis O'HareJohn Briggs
    • Joseph CrossDick Pabich
    • Stephen SpinellaRick Stokes

    Recommendations

    • 100

      Chicago Sun-Times

      Sean Penn never tries to show Harvey Milk as a hero, and never needs to. He shows him as an ordinary man, kind, funny, flawed, shrewd, idealistic, yearning for a better world.
    • 100

      San Francisco Chronicle

      With Milk, a great San Francisco story becomes a great American story.
    • 91

      Entertainment Weekly

      A fascinating film -- more docudrama than biopic.
    • 90

      The Hollywood Reporter

      The film is superbly crafted, covering huge amounts of time, people and the zeitgeist without a moment of lapsed energy or inattention to detail.
    • 90

      The New Yorker

      Milk is a rowdy anthem of triumph, brought to an abrupt halt by Milk's personal tragedies and the unfathomable moral chaos of Dan White.
    • 90

      NPR

      What sets this film entertainingly apart from most civil-rights sagas, though, are a slew of relaxed, offhandedly persuasive performances, along with the flamboyance of hippie-era San Francisco.
    • 80

      Variety

      Brolin's work is superlatively expressive of the inchoate impulses roiling inside his sorry character. But good as most of the cast is, the show belongs squarely to Penn.
    • 80

      Village Voice

      Milk is so immediate that it's impossible to separate the movie's moment from this one.

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