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Unfortunately Philadelphia isn't on the air any time soon.
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A successful young homosexual lawyer with AIDS sues his firm for unfair dismissal after he is sacked for an attitude problem.
Philadelphia won Oscars for Bruce Springsteen's haunting "The Streets of Philadelphia," and for Tom Hanks as the gay lawyer Andrew Beckett who is unjustly fired by his firm because he has AIDS. Denzel Washington is another lawyer who reluctantly takes Beckett's case and learns to overcome his misconceptions about the disease, about those who contract it, and about gay people in general. The combined warmth and humanism of Hanks and Demme were absolutely essential to making this picture a success. The cast also features Jason Robards, Antonio Banderas (as Beckett's lover), Joanne Woodward, and Robert Ridgely, and, of course, those Demme regulars Charles Napier, Tracey Walter and Roger Corman.
This is a feel good film about AIDS set within a standard Hollywood courtroom drama; it is well made, moving and absorbing.
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Drama, Gay, Homosexual, AIDS, Movie, Film, Movies, Films, Oscar Best Actor
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Many of the week's top shows are featured in our new On The Couch weekly podcast, which looks at what we've watched and all that's best in the coming seven days.
(1993) 
(5 Star)
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