Milk
Filmed on location in San Francisco, Milk is Gus Van Sant's account of the first openly gay man to be elected to public office in the USA, who was assassinated by another politician. Sean Penn (in an Oscar winning performance) plays the titular character Harvey Milk, with Josh Brolin and Emile Hersch slotting into the other main roles. Harvey Milk's life has been the subject of an Oscar winning documentary, but this is the first time his story has been fictionalised. It should be accurate however, with many of his friends and colleagues appearing on camera.
- Director:
- Gus Van Sant ('Paranoid Park', 'Last Days', 'Elephant', 'Good Will Hunting')
- Writer:
- Dustin Lance Black
- Cast:
- Sean PennJosh BrolinEmile HirschJames FrancoDiego LunaBrandon Boyce
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Reviews & comments
Flicks, Team
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Variety
pressBrolin's work is superlatively expressive of the inchoate impulses roiling inside his sorry character. But good as most of the cast is, the show belongs squarely to Penn.
The New York Times
pressHarvey Milk was an intriguing, inspiring figure. Milk is a marvel.
Rolling Stone
pressIt's a total triumph, brimming with humor, heart, sexual heat, political provocation and a crying need to stir things up, just like Harvey did. If there's a better movie around this year, with more bristling purpose, I sure as hell haven't seen it.
Roger Ebert
pressSean Penn never tries to show Harvey Milk as a hero, and never needs to. He shows him as an ordinary man, kind, funny, flawed, shrewd, idealistic, yearning for a better world.
Los Angeles Times
pressThere's nothing terribly wrong with Milk, it's just that its celebration of a culture and a neighborhood, its valentine to the early days of gay rights activism, is mostly more conventional than compelling.
Hollywood Reporter
pressThe film is superbly crafted, covering huge amounts of time, people and the zeitgeist without a moment of lapsed energy or inattention to detail.
Empire Magazine
pressMilk thoroughly deserves all of the press ink that will doubtless be spilt over it. Wear your 'Vote Penn' Oscar pin with pride.
Flicks, Team
flicksVariety
pressBrolin's work is superlatively expressive of the inchoate impulses roiling inside his sorry character. But good as most of the cast is, the show belongs squarely to Penn.
The New York Times
pressHarvey Milk was an intriguing, inspiring figure. Milk is a marvel.
Rolling Stone
pressIt's a total triumph, brimming with humor, heart, sexual heat, political provocation and a crying need to stir things up, just like Harvey did. If there's a better movie around this year, with more bristling purpose, I sure as hell haven't seen it.
Roger Ebert
pressSean Penn never tries to show Harvey Milk as a hero, and never needs to. He shows him as an ordinary man, kind, funny, flawed, shrewd, idealistic, yearning for a better world.
Los Angeles Times
pressThere's nothing terribly wrong with Milk, it's just that its celebration of a culture and a neighborhood, its valentine to the early days of gay rights activism, is mostly more conventional than compelling.
Hollywood Reporter
pressThe film is superbly crafted, covering huge amounts of time, people and the zeitgeist without a moment of lapsed energy or inattention to detail.
Empire Magazine
pressMilk thoroughly deserves all of the press ink that will doubtless be spilt over it. Wear your 'Vote Penn' Oscar pin with pride.
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