Milk (2008)

7.5	Listal rating
7.7	IMDB rating

Directed by

Gus Van Sant

Starring (View all)

Harvey Milk

Cleve Jones

Dan White

Jack Lira

Scott Smith

Anne Kronenberg

Mayor Moscone

John Briggs

Written by

Dustin Lance Black

(written by)

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JAMES FRANCO INTERVIEW FOR "MILK"

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Sean Penn - Charlie Rose 2008 - MILK

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Reviews

A biopic of indeliable power...

3 years ago at May 13 9:24

PvtCaboose91

3 votes

"My name is Harvey Milk and I'm here to recruit you!"

Gus Van Sant's Milk is an incisive and stirring dramatisation of the heroic life and violent death of 1970's gay activist Harvey Milk. Van Sant's magnificent biopic of indelible power is infused with a masterful and vibrant recreation of a tumultuous era that throbs with heart, humour and anguish. This engrossing, multi-layered h... read more

Got Milk?

2 years, 6 months ago at Nov 7 9:50

Tati Lopatiuk

3 votes

Milk funciona assim: tipos que o cara era beecha, aí encontra um outro beecha no metrô e aí começa uma louca paixão onde ele se dá conta de que já tem 40 anos e não fez nada da vida. Até aí nada demais, acho que todo mundo aqui tá na mesma situação, exceto a parte de encontrar um grande amor no metrô e, QUEM SABE, ser beecha. Mas Harvey Milk vai além na sua inoperância de 40 anos f... read more

The Milky bar kid wants your vote.

2 years, 7 months ago at Oct 7 15:33

AgentLexi

2 votes

''Without hope, life's not worth living.''

The story of Harvey Milk, and his struggles as an American gay activist who fought for gay rights and became California's first openly gay elected official.

Sean Penn: Harvey Milk

How miraculous it is how crucial timing is. Released only a few weeks after the passage of Proposition 8 - a measure that took away... read more

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Description: Academy Award nominee Gus Van Sant directs Academy Award winner Sean Penn as gay rights icon Harvey Milk. Mr. Milk (1930-1978) was an activist and politician, and the first openly gay man to be elected to public office in America; in 1977, he was voted to the city supervisors’ board of San Francisco. The following year, both he and ... (more)

Release date : 30 January 2009

Drama (22), Biography (22), Politics (18), Suicide (12), 2000s (12), 2008 (12), Homophobia (12), Gay (12), Gay Rights (10), San Francisco (10), Murder (8), Glbt (8), Protest (7), Usa (7), Harvey Milk (7), Social Activism (7), Friendship (6), Biopic (6), Opera (6), Assassination (5)

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"The moving final scene of the film, using the framing device in which San Francisco Supervisor Harvey Milk (Sean Penn) recorded his will into a cassette tape recorder in 1977, even predicting his own assassination, but still striving for hope: ("...I ask this, that If there be an assassination, I would want five, ten, a hundred, a thousand to rise. If a bullet should enter my brain, let it destroy every closet door. I ask for the movement to continue because it's not about personal gain, it's no"