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DVD Details
- Rated: PG-13
- Closed captioning available
- Run Time: 2 hours, 5 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: January 5, 1999
- Originally Released: 1993
- Label: Sony Pictures
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Tom Hanks & Denzel Washington | |
Performer: | Jason Robards, Mary Steenburgen, Antonio Banderas, Robert Ridgely, Buzz Kilman, Tracey Walter, Bradley Whitford, Paul Lazar, Charles Napier, Gary Goetzman & Joanne Woodward | |
Directed by | Jonathan Demme | |
Edited by | Craig McKay | |
Screenwriting by | Ron Nyswaner | |
Composition by | Howard Shore | |
Produced by | Jonathan Demme & Edward Saxon | |
Director of Photography: | Tak Fujimoto | |
Executive Production by | Ron Bozman, Gary Goetzman & Kenneth Utt |
Major Awards:
Academy Awards 1993 -
Best Actor: Tom Hanks
Academy Awards 1993 -
Best Original Song: Bruce Springsteen
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 3'4 --
Hanks and Washington (in a role that's unexpectedly comic) have rarely been better and use their considerable star power to obscure some of the movie's flaws.
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Philadelphia Daily News
...As a piece of moviemaking PHILADELPHIA often works wonderfully well...
Entertainment Weekly
...Landmark... - Recommended
Premiere
Rating: 3.5/4 --
Filmmaker Jonathan Demme does an absolutely superlative job of establishing the film's various characters and their urban environs...
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Reel Film Reviews
Rating: 3.5/4 --
An important film not just from a cinematic perspective, but from a cultural one, bringing the AIDS crisis to the masses in a deeply human way, confronting and dispelling prejudices and misconceptions with major stars.
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From the Front Row
Sparks of acting brilliance rescue the cautious, sometimes craven script, as does Demme's inventive direction. Though the plotting reeks of safety-first commercialism, the camerawork has the dangerous intimacy of independent film-making.
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Independent on Sunday
Rating: 3.5/4 --
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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ReelViews
Product Description:
Tom Hanks plays Andrew Beckett, a hotshot Philadelphia lawyer who has been keeping his homosexuality, and his AIDS, hidden from his conservative bosses. When he's suddenly and inexplicably fired, Andrew suspects AIDS is the reason, and is determined to fight in court, even as he is losing his other battle, against the disease. Beckett hires attorney Joe Miller (Denzel Washington) to represent him, but the lawyer must first overcome his own homophobia and fears. Director Jonathan Demme filmed this after winning the Oscar for SILENCE OF THE LAMBS. The amazing cast includes Antonio Banderas, Joanne Woodward, and Jason Robards. Roger Corman and Charles Napier, both in LAMBS, make appearances. Bruce Springsteen's haunting song "Streets of Philadelphia" plays over the memorable opening credits. This sensitive, moody film touches on a vast array of subjects surrounding gay and straight men, family, and death, without ever being maudlin or preachy, which is to its immense credit. An undoubted influence on society's growing acceptance of homosexuality, PHILADELPHIA reminds us how far we've come in that direction, and how far we still need to go.
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- Sales Rank: 7,828
- UPC: 043396526198
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