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Milk

Sean Penn, Emile Hirsch, Josh Brolin, Diego Luna, James Franco, Alison Pill, Victor Garber, Denis O'Hare, Joseph Cross, Stephen Spinella, Lucas Grabeel, Brandon Boyce, Howard Rosenman, Kelvin Yu, Jeff Koons

His life changed history. His courage changed lives.

In 1977, Harvey Milk was elected to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, becoming the first openly gay man to be voted into public o...( read more  read more... )ffice in America. His victory was not just a victory for gay rights; he forged coalitions across the political spectrum. From senior citizens to union workers, Harvey Milk changed the very nature of what it means to be a fighter for human rights and became, before his untimely death in 1978, a hero for all Americans. Sean Penn stars as Harvey Milk under the direction of Gus Van Sant in Milk, filmed on location in San Francisco from an original screenplay by Dustin Lance Black, and produced by Dan Jinks and Bruce Cohen.

Milk charts the last eight years of Harvey Milk's life. While living in New York City, he turns 40. Looking for more purpose, Milk and his lover Scott Smith (James Franco) relocate to San Francisco, where they found a small business, Castro Camera, in the heart of a working-class neighborhood. With his beloved Castro neighborhood and beautiful city empowering him, Milk surprises Scott and himself by becoming an outspoken agent for change.

With vitalizing support from Scott and from new friends like young activist Cleve Jones (Emile Hirsch), Milk plunges headfirst into the choppy waters of politics. Bolstering his public profile with humor, Milk's actions speak even louder than his gift-of-gab words.

When Milk is elected supervisor for the newly zoned District 5, he tries to coordinate his efforts with those of another newly elected supervisor, Dan White (Josh Brolin). But as White and Milk's political agendas increasingly diverge, their personal destinies tragically converge.

Milk's platform was and is one of hope – a hero's legacy that resonates in the here and now.

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  • mjgildea
    November 12, 2009
    mjgildea
    Milk is a well-acted and well-directed movie about about the first openly gay American politician. The first hour leading up to Harvey Milk's election as district supervisor wasn't bad, but the last hour that dealt mostly with combating a proposition that would take squash gay ci...( read more)vil rights and essentially the movement itself just seemed generally typical and kind of inspired me to clean my house a little bit out of anxiousness and some low-grade boredom. Like I said, the acting was superb and Gus Van Sant's direction was great (and actually reminiscent at times of his earlier works like Drugstore Cowboy and My Own Private Idaho) but when the whole thing was put together it just didn't strike me as anything to truly freak out over.
  • clooneyfan
    October 31, 2009
    clooneyfan
    I must be old fashioned but I thought Milk was awfully promiscious.
  • Chiefilms
    October 30, 2009
    Chiefilms
    This was a good film biopic about gay rights activist/politician Harvey Milk. Gus Van Sant was the perfect director for the film not just because he's gay but also because the mood and style of the picture suits him well. The acting was great and the script was great. An hones...( read more)t film that doesn't try to hide anything for the audience's pleasure or comfort, which is why it is a strong film. Sean Penn getting an Oscar for this may have been a little over the top, but it's an Oscar caliber performance. It's an important film and story in many ways. Someone could say "this film is so gay" and that would be a compliment for Milk. It's real gay.
  • franktowers
    October 25, 2009
    franktowers
    it was good
  • 76Majikat
    October 14, 2009
    76Majikat
    An extremely worthy tale to tell of the true story of Harvey Milk, Gay and Human rights activist turned politician during the 70?s in San Fransisco.

    Yet another great performance from Penn and very Gus Van Sant to bring a controversial story to light.

    This is a great awaren...( read more)ess story and a legacy that will live on. It also acts as a metaphor for any type of minority, whatever that minority might be.
  • laymate1
    November 12, 2009
    laymate1
    good acting, inspirational, James Franco
  • sbtrains
    November 9, 2009
    sbtrains
    It shared our history and the film was very good
  • ovidioconb
    November 8, 2009
    ovidioconb
    This fucker Sean Penn really gets into his characters.
  • allefra25
    November 8, 2009
    allefra25
    A very wonderful movie, definitely one of the better biopics I've seen. Sean Penn, James Franco, Emile Hirsch, and Josh Brolin were all AMAZING; their performances were very lifelike, specially Sean Penn, who won the Oscar; he embodied Milk perfectly. I thought it got a little le...( read more)ss interesting when Diego Luna's whiny Jack was introduced; obviously, Jack was an important part of Milk's life, but I personally could have done without him. His suicide was sad, but did it have much bearing on the plot afterward? Milk looked sad for a scene and then moved on. Something about the ending bugged me, but endings usually bother me, anyway; it's hard to get me to like an ending. I always end up feeling let down. The candle light march was really nice, but, I don't know...something about it felt incomplete. Although Milk's narration was nice. His narration throughout the entire film was nice, but I had to wonder why he thought he was going to get assassinated, and when did he record that tape, anyway? How soon before his death? Anyway, aside from nitpicky stuff, this movie was excellent, definitely Gus Van Sant's best. The cinematography was excellent, especially in the first hour; there were so many great shots, and not just great, but interesting and even inventive ones. I liked how he didn't change angles a lot in the beginning, and there weren't that many close ups. I liked feeling like a watcher of Milk, someone on the sidelines who watches and gets closer and closer as he gets more and more powerful politically. Two especially beautifully shot scenes I must mention - the scene where Milk is identifying a dead gay man's body on the street. The shot focuses on a whistle, which belonged to the guy, and we only see the people talking from its reflection. It's really quite nice. And then there was this crowd scene that ties into how I said I felt like I was someone who was an admirer of Milk who was watching him; the handy cam was in the crowd, moving around as if it was a person at the parade (or whatever it was) just watching, like everyone else. People's heads were in the way a bit, too. It was very realistic. I would highly recommend this film to everyone. It may have a bit of an "agenda," but it's still a powerful film that parallels what California has been going through the past year or so, and it is also the inspirational story of a man's life, cut short by bigotry. I think everyone can take something positive from this film.
  • theloneowl
    November 6, 2009
    theloneowl
    È uno di quei film che ti lasciano quel magone piacevole per diversi giorni dopo averlo visto.
    E Sean Penn.. Sean Penn è immenso, come sempre.
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