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Homosexual Andrew Beckett, a talented lawyer at a stodgy Philadelphia law firm, is infected with AIDS. He gets fired because his colleagues are afraid of contracting AIDS from him. Andrew then hires a homophobic small time lawyer as the only willing advocate for a wrongful dismissal suit.

Genre:

Drama

Actors:

Tom Hanks, Denzel Washington, Roberta Maxwell, Buzz Kilman, Karen Finley, Daniel Chapman, Mark Sorensen Jr., Jeffrey Williamson, Charles Glenn, Ron Vawter, Anna Deavere Smith, ...»

Director:

Jonathan Demme

Country:

United States

Release:

1993

IMDb:

7.7

Quality:

Duration:

125 min

New York Times

"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.

May 20, 2003

Shadows on the Wall

involving but badly cliched

August 26, 2005

Groucho Reviews

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]

May 29, 2013

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Time Out

Safe and apolitical it may be, but Philadelphia succeeds as a deeply affecting humanist drama.

June 24, 2006

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Capital Times (Madison, WI)

The courtroom stuff is unwieldly, but everything else is brave and moving.

October 25, 2005

Cinemaphile.org

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.

June 14, 2015

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EmanuelLevy.Com

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.

April 21, 2006

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Washington Post

This AIDS courtroom drama is so pumped full of nitrous oxide, you could get your teeth drilled on it.

January 01, 2000

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Chicago Sun-Times

Philadelphia breaks no new dramatic ground ... And yet Philadelphia is quite a good film, on its own terms.

January 01, 2000

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Common Sense Media

Moving, Oscared '90s drama fostered AIDS empathy.

December 18, 2010

Variety

[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.

October 10, 2008

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