Philadelphia was shown under the heading, "ImageOut of the Archives." The movie was made almost 25 years ago, and it's being shown again to mark that anniversary. Almost all of the movies shown at ImageOut are new, cutting-edge films. It was shown at Rochester's wonderful ImageOut, the LGBT Film Festival. We saw this film at the excellent Dryden Theatre at George Eastman Museum in Rochester, NY. It's very strong and truly heart-wrenching. How this prejudice played out inside and outside the courtroom represents the plot of the movie. But, at the time, gay sex was considered evil, and many people thought that gay men with AIDS deserved the disease. In retrospect, we can see the moral error in this good vs. So, the thought was that these people were innocent victims.īad AIDS came from (mostly) men having sex with men. In the 1980's and 1990's, people distinguished between "good AIDS" and "bad AIDS." Good AIDS was AIDS that people contracted from blood transfusions. The movie is courageous in facing AIDS directly. Great actors like Roberta Maxwell and Joanne Woodward have small supporting roles. The film doesn't just have star power in the leading roles. All four men are superstars, and it's easy to see why. Jason Robards is perfectly cast as Charles Wheeler, Beckett's mentor until he becomes Beckett's enemy. However, he knows injustice when he sees it.) Antonio Banderas plays Beckett's loving partner, Miguel Alvarez. Denzel Washington plays Joe Miller, who agrees to represent Beckett. When Beckett is fired from his high-prestige law firm, no lawyer wants to touch his case for wrongful dismissal. Tom Hanks portrays brilliant lawyer Andrew Beckett. TriStar certainly provided the funds to attract an all-star cast. However, to my knowledge, Philadelphia was the first high-budget, mainstream film about AIDS to appear on the screen. The AIDS epidemic started in the early 1980's, and movies about AIDS started to appear in the mid-1980s. Philadelphia (1993) was directed by Jonathan Demme. Reviewed by Red-125 10 / 10 Still a powerful movie after 25 years
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