Philadelphia (1994)

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Bald Move

Tv & Film, Film Reviews

4.5 • 942 Ratings

🗓️ 6 April 2022

⏱️ 62 minutes

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The year is 1994 and Tom Hanks is trying to redefine his funny-man image and there's nothing less funny than AIDS. Join us for the first mainstream Hollywood film about the AIDS epidemic starring Tom Hanks as a gay man who believes he was wrongfully terminated for his disease and Denzel Washington, the homophobic lawyer who decides to defend him. Check out https://support.baldmove.com/ to find out how you can gain access to ALL of our premium content, as well as ad-free versions of the podcasts, for just $5 a month! Join the discussion: Email | Discord | Reddit | Forums Follow us: Twitch | YouTube | Twitter | Instagram | Facebook Leave Us A Review on Apple Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello everybody welcome back to another bald move prestige podcast today we're talking about 1994 is very prestigious
0:07.1	very Philadelphia
0:10.3	It's a legal drama starring Tom Hanks and Denzel Washington. It's directed by Jonathan Dimme de may.
0:20.0	Shit. Oh my God, these guys names, why didn't I?
0:24.0	I didn't even think the practice pronouncing them.
0:27.0	He directed the Silence of the Lambs, got an Academy Award for that one,
0:31.0	also directed Rachel got getting married and
0:33.7	married to the mob there's a lot of marriage themes yeah it's written by
0:37.4	written by Ron Yey Swaner who is a long-term activist for gay rights who previously directed the
0:45.3	documentary celluloid Closets as well as the film Soldiers Girl which is about
0:49.7	an American GI that gets beat to death by a fellow soldier for dating a trans woman.
0:54.6	He's also recently the executive producer of Showtime's TV series Homeland, which is kind of
1:01.9	cool. I was really into that for a couple years.
1:03.8	Like I said, it stars Tom Hanks. We know Tom Hanks. You know, he's Woody.
1:07.7	Stars Denzel Washington. We know Denzel Washington. He's an American gangster.
1:11.9	Also, America Sweetheart, Mary Steingburger. no Denzel Washington, he's the American gangster.
1:12.8	Also, America Sweetheart, Mary Steingbergen,
1:15.6	playing a pretty unlikable lady in this movie,
1:18.4	Antonio Banderas.
1:20.8	As Tom Hanks' boyfriend, Anne Dowd shows up as Tom as Tom Hanks's sister,
1:28.0	Roger Corman, legendary B movie director, the mentor of Jonathan Dem here, appears as one of the litigants and Bradford
1:39.7	Whitford right before his run or maybe concurrently with his run on the West Wing as another lawyer here.
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