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Sean Penn is Harvey Milk

After moving to San Francisco, a middle-aged New Yorker named Harvey Milk opens a camera store on Castro St with his lover Scott Smith (James Franco) and there becomes a potent and effective Gay Rights activist. After three hard fought elections Milk eventually wins a post as City Supervisor in San Francisco in 1977 making him the first openly gay man to be elected to public office in the United States.

When the city's mayor, George Moscone (Victor Garber) backs Harvey Milk's power play to terminate a rival, the slightly deranged former city supervisor Dan White (Josh Brolin) takes matters into his own hands.

Directed by Gus Van Sant, Milk stars Sean Penn, Emile Hirsch, James Franco and Josh Brolin.

Harvey Milk Was America's First Openly Gay Politician

He was elected to City Supervisor in San Francisco in 1977

Harvey Milk has already been the subject of several books and an Academy Award-winning documentary feature, The Times of Harvey Milk (1984), directed by Rob Epstein and produced by Richard Schmiechen, this feature film presentation is the first long format narrative to explore private aspects of the man's personal life and career.

The story is narrated by Sean Penn as Harvey Milk (first person past tense) leaving his last will and testament on a series of audio cassettes. The foreboding is present right from the beginning, and the ending will echo in the minds of the viewers for days after.

Milk was filmed on location in San Francisco. Many of Mr Milk's real-life surviving friends and former associates participated in the making of this film, several appearing on camera.

During the fight against the attempt by California State Senator John Briggs (Denis O'Hare) to ban gays from teaching in public schools, the film actually shows real TV reports and documentary material. These home movies and vintage news reports are fluidly mixed with fresh footage throughout the film to best depict the life and times of Harvey Milk.

Harvey Milk on Amazon

Book and Videos about Harvey Milk and the History of Gay Rights in America

I think it's odd that the 'Pictorial History of Harvey Milk and the Story Behind the Film', is the only related title on Amazon without a picture? Oh well with a title like that I had to include it in this lens.
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Production stills and press photos from the EPK

Sean Penn's transformation into Harvey Milk is VERY remarkable. I was also very impressed with the 1970s period recreation present in sets, costumes, cars etc and even the way the actors talk.
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CFA Brings Execution of Justice to Wimberly
Hovering above the stage, the image of Harvey Milk appears to look down in judgment upon his assassin, Dan White, played by Ian Geers (CFA'14), in CFA's production of Execution of Justice. Photos by Cydney Scott It was a trial that riveted the nation.
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The subjects include Wladyslaw Szpilman (The Pianist), Ray Charles (Ray), Truman Capote (Capote), Idi Amin (The Last King of Scotland), Harvey Milk (Milk) and George VI (The King's Speech). Ever the maverick, the now 48-year-old actor Nicolas Cage ...
Festival line-up update - 17 Feb 2012
ATP'S I'LL BE YOUR MIRROR, Alexandra Palace, London, 25-27 May: Death Grips, Aiden Moffat & Bill Wells, Harvey Milk, Tall Firs and Forest Swords are amongst the latest acts destined to play ATP's springtime incarnation, as are post-rock types The ...
Movie Review: Director Clint Eastwood Stumbles with Ambitious Misfire J. EDGAR
Ironically, Black solved this problem in his Milk screenplay; that earlier film made time for Harvey Milk the Politician and Harvey Milk the Man because it limited its focus to Milk's San Francisco years. If Black made central the Lindbergh kidnapping, ...
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