Andrew Beckett is handsome but gay. Andrew works as a talented lawyer in a Philadelphia law firm and is probably successful in his field, but he will go through very difficult circumstances. Because Andrew was infected with AIDS, he was released because his colleagues were afraid of contracting AIDS after learning about it. After a while, Andrew is thinking of hiring a gay lawyer as the only defender of a lawsuit that seems to be illegal for some. Andrew is struggling to prove to everyone that he is not mistaken in the face of many criticisms.
"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.
Shadows on the Wall
August 26, 2005
involving but badly cliched
Groucho Reviews
May 29, 2013
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]
The courtroom stuff is unwieldly, but everything else is brave and moving.
Cinemaphile.org
June 14, 2015
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.
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.
[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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Annabelle: Creation
2017
IMDb: 7
109 min
Country: United States
Genre: Thriller, Horror, Mystery
Twelve years after the tragic death of their little girl, a dollmaker and his wife welcome a
nun and several girls from a shuttered orphanage into ...
