Philadelphia 1993

type: Movie

language: English

duration: 125 min

genre: drama

theme: legal drama

director: Jonathan Demme

Score: 8 / 10

Philadelphia is a 1993 American legal drama film written by Ron Nyswaner, directed by Jonathan Demme and starring Tom Hanks and Denzel Washington. Filmed on location in its namesake city, it tells the story of attorney Andrew Beckett (Hanks) who comes to ask a personal injury attorney, Joe Miller (Washington), to help him sue his former employer, who fired him after discovering he was gay and that he had AIDS.

Plot

Andrew Beckett is a senior associate at the largest corporate law firm in Philadelphia. He conceals his homosexuality and his status as an AIDS patient from others in the office. A partner in the firm notices a lesion on Beckett's forehead. Although Beckett attributes the lesion to a racquetball injury, it indicates Kaposi's sarcoma, an AIDS-defining condition.

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More details

author	Ron Nyswaner
award	Academy Award for Best Actor Academy Award for Best Original Song National Board of Review: Top Ten Films
contentLocation	Philadelphia
director	Jonathan Demme
editor	Craig McKay
events	HIV/AIDS homophobia
genre	drama political
keywords	act as his own attorney after a blood transfusion aid aids status associate associate attorney blood transfusion claim corporate law discrimination against people with hiv/aids end gay sex hard drive kaposi\'s sarcoma law firm meet morning after phone call pro se legal representation in the united states punitive damages racial discrimination routes of hiv infection statute of limitations suffer suspect
musicBy	Howard Shore
nomination	Academy Award for Best Actor Academy Award for Best Makeup and Hairstyling Academy Award for Best Writing, Original Screenplay
producer	Edward Saxon Jonathan Demme
publisher	TriStar Pictures
recordedAt	Lower Merion Township Philadelphia Philadelphia City Hall Spectrum University of Pennsylvania
theme	home movies legal drama lgbt-related