Philadelphia

Release Date:Rating:

December 23rd, 1993

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Drama

Subgenres:

Blockbuster, Gay/Lesbian, Legal, Medical, Political, Tear Jerker

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When attorney Andrew Beckett is wrongfully fired from his firm because he has AIDS, he enlists the help of his former nemesis, Joe Miller to sue his former partners. Throughout the trial, as...

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Directed: Jonathan Demme Written: NA
Starring: Tony Fitzpatrick, Warren Miller, Charles Napier, Roberta Maxwell, Ron Vawter

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amauriel

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"Philadelphia" was really an excellent movie. It was powerful and the script was original and quite refreshing. Kudos to every actor and crew member involved with this film.

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This movie was great. I remember I sort of watch it when I was young, but I did not really get it, it was not until later when I finally get into the story. This story talks about a homosexual man who is fired from his job because he has AIDS, and...
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[+] Seattle Post-Intelligencer

91

Jonathan Demme's long-awaited Philadelphia is so expertly acted, well-meaning and gutsy that you find yourself constantly pulling for it to be the definitive AIDS movie. [14 Jan 1994, p.13]
by Christopher Matthews | Read Full Review »
[+] Chicago Sun-Times

88

And yet Philadelphia is quite a good film, on its own terms. And for moviegoers with an antipathy to AIDS but an enthusiasm for stars like Tom Hanks and Denzel Washington, it may help to broaden understanding of the disease.
by Roger Ebert | Read Full Review »
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88

The story is timely and powerful, and the performances of Hanks and Washington assure that the characters will not immediately vanish into obscurity.
by James Berardinelli | Read Full Review »
[+] The Globe and Mail (Toronto)

88

This Hollywood movie about a gay man afflicted with AIDS is evocative, understated and ultimately deeply affecting. Hard-earned tears of truth. [22 Dec 1993, p.C1]
by Rick Groen | Read Full Review »
[+] Variety

80

On a scene-by-scene basis, in terms of performance and the grave issues under consideration, the film is quite absorbing.
by Todd McCarthy | Read Full Review »
[+] TV Guide

75

Philadelphia fails to create complex characters or finely nuanced drama, but it succeeds in its real goal; the education of an audience whose thinking about AIDS and gay life has been shaped by notions of perversion and divine retribution.
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[+] Boston Globe

75

Phildelphia, with its velvety textures and rhythms and heads-up soundtrack, does a good job of at least putting the topic on the mainstream table. And it's dramatically potent as well as historically important. [14 Jan 1994, p.73]
by Jay Carr | Read Full Review »
[+] Chicago Tribune

75

Even with its imperfections, Philadelphia is still an entertaining and moving film. Although it preaches, it also forces us to look at ourselves. [21 Jan 1994, p.N]
by Chrissie Bielinski | Read Full Review »
[+] San Francisco Chronicle

75

Forgiving its moments of melodrama, Philadelphia makes emotional power punches out of every smile, embrace and tear in its story of a regular guy contracting AIDS and getting booted out of the law firm that once lifted him to glory. [14 Jan 1994, p.C1]
by Peter Stack | Read Full Review »
[+] The New York Times

70

In the end, thanks to such effects and to the simple grace of Mr. Hanks's performance, this film does accomplish what it means to. Philadelphia rises above its flaws to convey the full urgency of its difficult subject, and to bring that subject home.
by Janet Maslin | Read Full Review »
[+] Washington Post

70

It's less like a film by Demme than the best of Frank Capra. It is not just canny, corny and blatantly patriotic, but compassionate, compelling and emotionally devastating.
by Rita Kempley | Read Full Review »
[+] The New Yorker

70

The result is an unorthodox blend of courtroom drama and old-style weepie, and somehow it comes off. [23 Dec 1993]
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[+] Entertainment Weekly

67

But Philadelphia turns out to be a scattershot liberal message movie, one that ties itself in knots trying to render its subject matter acceptable to a mass audience.
by Owen Gleiberman | Read Full Review »
[+] Christian Science Monitor

67

Demme's filmmaking makes up in sincerity what it lacks in originality, and he gets a remarkable amount of emotional mileage from simple close-ups of expressive faces. [24 Dec 1993]
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[+] Austin Chronicle

67

Still, Philadelphia is comprised of enough "little moments" that provide all the richness and grace we need to get us past the film's more inelegant moments. Primary here are the transcendent lead performances by Hanks and Washington, both of whom are, at all times, exciting to watch.
by Marjorie Baumgarten | Read Full Review »

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