Critic Reviews
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Todd McCarthy, 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.
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Janet Maslin, 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.
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Rita Kempley, Washington Post
It's less like a film by Demme than the best of Frank Capra. It is not just canny, corny and blatantly patriotic, but compassionate, compelling and emotionally devastating.
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James Berardinelli, ReelViews
The story is timely and powerful, and the performances of Hanks and Washington assure that the characters will not immediately vanish into obscurity.
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Desson Thomson, Washington Post
This AIDS courtroom drama is so pumped full of nitrous oxide, you could get your teeth drilled on it.
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Cast
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Tom Hanksas Andrew Beckett -
Denzel Washingtonas Joe Miller -
Jason Robardsas Charles Wheeler
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Mary Steenburgenas Belinda Conine -
Antonio Banderasas Miguel Alvarez -
Ron Vawteras Bob Seidman



