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 and set in its namesake city, it tells the story of gay man Andrew Beckett (Hanks) who asks lawyer Joe Miller (Washington) to help him sue his employers, who fired him after discovering he has 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 the other members of the firm. 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.

Awards

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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
keywords	act as his own attorney after a blood transfusion aid associate associate attorney blood transfusion claim corporate law diagnosis with aids discrimination against people with hiv/aids discrimination due to his race 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 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