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Philadelphia (1993) (Patreon)

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Tom Hanks, Denzel Washington, Antonio Banderas, Jason Robards, Mary Steenburgen, Charles Napier

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Philadelphia

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nj

debating whether i'm up to watching this one again.

Emptysea93

Such a great movie. Sadly AIDS stigma is still around, to this day federal guidelines for US blood banks still require gay men, and only gay men, to be abstinent for several months in order to donate blood, they say it is to prevent exposure to AIDS, however they already test all blood samples for AIDS, they just assume gay men are more likely to have it, even if statistically this is untrue now. I am glad yall are such good allies, we need more guys like you willing to watch movies like this and be affected by it. Sadly there is a lot of hate lately and I fear we are going backwards now. Anyways thank you for being amazing, thoughtful, and empathetic dudes. You make it a joy to watch you!

dys
>>160225308

Apparently that requirement was dropped just last year. And even that was a huge improvement from just a decade ago when men who had EVER had sex with men since the AIDS epidemic started were categorically banned for life.

ScarlettMi

Your brief mention of Angels in America made me immediately hope that some day you'll react to HBO's 2003 adaptation of Angels in America. It has one of the most beautiful scores of all time (from Thomas Newman) and was directed by Mike Nichols. The cast is beyond stacked. It's on my personal list of the best things HBO has ever made.

Kristi Govertsen

Oof. Beautiful movie, but knowing the tear-jerk scenes are coming doesn’t make the rewatch any less weepy. Both the opera scene and the end at the hospital with his family get me every time.

Mithroch

Joanne Woodward is an Oscar winning actress... and the widow of Paul Newman

dys
>>160225308

And that 2015 change where the total ban was dropped was something I noticed at the time, because I was working at a big tech company that had regular blood drives. I'd been giving blood pretty regularly since highschool but the guy at the desk across from mine, who lead the LGBT resource group for that corporate campus, had never been able to before then.

dys

If it helps make the ending swing a little more towards bittersweet rather than fully tragic, the good news is with modern treatment HIV is not only no longer a death sentence but doesn't even reduce life expectancy. It's just another chronic but manageable disease now.

ScarlettMi

This is one of those movies that truly captures the moment in which it was released and that was important to have been made exactly when it was made. There were 53 HIV/AIDS-positive actors who appeared in Philadelphia in 1993 and by 1994, 43 of them had died.

Pam Nail

This came out my freshman year in college, and my roommate got to see it before I did. It probably would have taken 20-25 minutes from when she left the theater to when she got back to our dorm room, and she was still crying when she came through the door. I remember asking her how it was, and all she could say, still crying, was "They won the case." Sooooo much crossover with Silence of the Lambs in the cast. The judge in this was the officer who gets splayed and butterflied. The old guy in the jury was the funeral home director. The guy in the library who's trying to get Andy to leave was, I think, the coroner (also in the funeral home scene). The guy who plays the lawyer Bob was the FBI guy who takes over the Buffalo Bill case and interrogates Lecter when he's strapped to the hand truck and wearing the mask. And you pointed out the doctor, who played one of the bug guys. Another great movie Demme made before Silence and this was his Talking Heads concert film, Stop Making Sense, which was in theaters again last year.

Jeff

I saw this in the theater when it first came out. I was with a friend whose cousin had died of AIDS, and it was the first time she'd seen anything that truly expressed her experience. A few years ago I learned that my first boyfriend, whom I'd met in the late 80s, died of AIDS six years later around the time when this movie was released. We tend to forget that hundreds of people in this country were dying each week, many from the same cities and communities. People would find out each weekend which of their friends they'd lost that week. Add that to the fear, hatred, bigotry, and discrimination that was prevalent in our society, it's a wonder that so many of us have made it this far with some hope and faith in the inherent goodness of our fellow humans. Joe, if you ever get a chance to see "Angels in America" live on stage, it's definitely worth it. It's such an incredible experience. Seeing Tom Hanks reminded me to remind you again that I think you'd love to watch "Band of Brothers", which was produced by Hanks and Steven Spielberg.

Laura Room

Sorry guys. I voted for Philadelphia. I think you would've gotten the rom-com you expected if just one of the two were in the poll. But, sorry, not sorry because this one is special. I feel changed every time I watch it I love that Andrew has a loving and accepting family. It's not the case for everyone, but in this story it really helps to humanize him ,which was important at the time in particular. I graduated highl school in lower NY state in 1996 (upstate if you'vefrom NYC). I knew 2 guys who were out. One, I'd known was gay since before I really knew what gay was. When he came out to his parents Junior year they freaked. I still wonder how he's doing today as he did not stay in touch. The other was a couple of years younger and either the few years or his courage, had him out as a freshman. I know it was not easy to be out in the 90s.

anita smith

At the end of the credits: "This motion picture was inspired in part by Geoffrey Bowers' AIDS discrimination lawsuit, the courage and love of the Angius family and the struggles of the many others who, along with their loved ones, have experienced discrimination because of AIDS."

anita smith

Joanne Woodward won an Academy Award for Best Actress for the 1957 movie "The Three Faces of Eve" She was married to Paul Newman for 50 years.

CB

I was in high school and college in the '80s. I graduated from college in 1989 which was the height of the AIDS epidemic. The fear at that time was very real. As unbelievable as it sounds today, it was initially thought to only affect gay people and was called GRID - Gay Related Immune Deficiency syndrome. Once people realized anyone could get it, panic set in. There were several films that were made that were very important in getting public opinion to change and this was one of them. HBO's Angel's in America was one of them.

Youtalkingtome
>>160245779

I was wondering if there was some inspiration or if was purely fiction. Either way, this screenplay was fantastic

Youtalkingtome
>>160245630

We are so glad you did. This blew us away. Definitely not easy in the 90s. Easier today but a lot of people are still marginalized and it really sucks.

Youtalkingtome
>>160245355

Absolutely tragic. Just surreal to think that this happened. Any stigma placed on a certain group of people drives me bananas. Especially in circumstances like this. I'm truly sorry to hear that this happened and it's important that we remember it. We can learn from the past to make a better tomorrow.

Youtalkingtome
>>160243413

Thank you for shouting out all the members of SOTL. So many familiar faces, I forgot that he did Stop Making Sense. I almost went and saw it when it was re released. I really should have.

Youtalkingtome
>>160239816

It is bittersweet. I'm aware that it's not the death sentence that it once. Just the loss of life is heartbreaking

Youtalkingtome
>>160225308

Thank you for being here. We love and appreciate every single person here. Hate and bigotry has no place in our hearts.

Weird Magic

This was the Tom Hanks/Antonio Banderas love story we never knew we needed

Weird Magic
>>160268990

The funnier line is the Woody/Puss in Boots love story we never knew we needed :)

Weird Magic

Most of the time, I believe Hollywood thinks too much of itself as activists trying to push narratives instead of telling stories. Philadelphia, to me, is one of the exceptions because this one needed to be hammered into the full mainstream consciousness. My handle here (and pretty much everywhere) is Weird Magic because of the two people I idolized growing up, Weird Al and Magic Johnson (eclectic, I know :) ). And Magic Weird sounds.....well weird. As a high school senior coming home from basketball practice on Nov 7, 1991, my Dad shouted down the steps to turn on the TV. https://youtu.be/VbdOQUARrEU?si=ARIKdmNdQf9jzl4I Magic's HIV announcement was a major catalyst for advancing the AIDS conversation because it forced the sports fandom/universe to educate itself about it. Regardless of your personal feelings toward sports, they are a major part of a lot of people's lives, so Magic's situation was really the first needle-moving step for the mainstream to start getting educated (or refusing to) and then talking about what it all meant. Philadelphia came out in December 1993 and was the next hard punch to hit the movie-going section of society in the conversation as well. Let's face it—if you get the sports knuckleheads and the moviegoers talking about the same subject, then everybody is talking about it, as there are very few who don't fall into one of those categories. The combination of these two "events" (Magic and Philadelphia) IMO were the two biggest factors in the societal changes that we've seen since 1994. They were the needle movers. For that reason, despite the sadness included in this movie, and regardless that I have nothing in common with anything or anyone in this movie (other than Magic who I have been in the same room with but have not yet met), I will always stop and watch.

Youtalkingtome
>>160281577

For sure. I remember some NBA players (including Karl Malone) publicly saying they were afraid to play with Johnson.

Actuarial Lurker
>>160281577

Freddie Mercury's announcement he had AIDS the night before he passed and then Magic announcing that as a straight man one could catch AIDS from unprotected sex combined to humanize a disease that had been termed a "gay plague" by right wing types in the Reagan era. If Jimmy Carter (RIP) or Ted Kennedy had won the 1980 election I think a lot more would have been done EARLIER not to stigmatize HIV/AIDS.

Actuarial Lurker
>>160281577

Another person who helped overcome the stigma was Princess Diana who went to a foundling hospital for orphans with AIDS and held the young children to show that you couldn't catch HIV just from casual contact with sweat or breath....

Joy M

I’ve been reading Dr. Fauci’s autobiography and the chapters on his work with HIV and AIDS are fascinating. 40% of hemophiliacs died of AIDS in the U.S. at the height of the crisis. Over half were infected.

Joy M

I went to Penn for grad school. Philly is a special place. Definitely go to the Museum of the American Revolution when you’re there. The scene in the “law library” in the film is actually the Fisher Fine Arts Library on Penn’s campus. It’s a gorgeous building inside and out.

Joy M
>>160330197

I couldn’t believe the stat and went down a rabbit hole of research on it. It’s true. The U.S. used a clotting agent back then that was made up of thousands of donors blood, that was the main reason. It also took about 4 years to develop a blood test.

Aude M

I really love this movie. Seen it at least 5 times including today. I particularly love the soundtrack : Springsteen, the Neil Young one at the end haut me everytime I hear them. And also the opera piece. Gorgeous. Haunting.