Milk (2009)

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Directed by

Gus Van Sant

Starring (View all)

Sean Penn
Harvey Milk

Emile Hirsch
Cleve Jones

Josh Brolin
Dan White

Diego Luna
Jack Lira

James Franco
Scott Smith

Alison Pill
Anne Kronenberg

Victor Garber
Mayor Moscone

Denis O'Hare
John Briggs

Written by

Dustin Lance Black
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A biopic of indeliable power...

14 years, 6 months ago at May 13 14:24

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

The Milky bar kid wants your vote.

14 years, 2 months ago at Oct 7 20:33

Lexi

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

Milk

14 years, 8 months ago at Apr 1 3:45

JxSxPx

2 votes

For me, Milk was easily the best film of last year's Academy Awards run. Slumdog was an overrated Indian version of a Charles Dickens story, and Frost/Nixon and The Reader were inexplicably nominated, in my opinion. Only Benjamin Button and Milk touched me out of the top five, but Button didn't touch me as much as Milk did. Sean Penn smiles! That alone should have gotten him the Oscar nomination. ... 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 the city’s mayor George Moscone were shot to death by another city supervisor, Dan White. Mr. Milk was previously the subject of the Academy Award-winning documentary feature “The Times of Harvey Milk,” but “Milk” – filmed on location in San Francisco – is the first non-documentary fea ... (more)

Release date: 8 January 2009

Tags: Biography (28), Drama (25), Politics (20), Gay (16), 2008 (16), 2000s (15), Suicide (14), Homophobia (13), San Francisco (12), Gay Rights (11), Murder (10), (10), Glbt (9), Biopic (8), Usa (7), Opera (7), Protest (7), Social Activism (7), Harvey Milk (7), Friendship (6)

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"There have been several films and documentaries about the life of openly gay San Francisco politician Harvey Milk. However, given his counterculturalist views and inception as one of the key figures in the Queer Eye cinema, Gus Van Sant seemed to be the ideal choice to direct the biopic. "Milk" follows the gay rights activist and politician (Sean Penn) from his path to the Board of Supervisors to his quarrel with conservative member of District 7 Dan White (Josh Brolin) to his assassination alon"