Andrew works as a talented lawyer in a Philadelphia law firm but is not the perfect young man for everyone. Andrew is a gay guy and because of that he will go through very difficult circumstances. Andrew's injury to AIDS seems to be very bad, as he was released because his colleagues are afraid of getting HIV from him after learning about it after a long time. Andrew tries to defend himself by thinking of hiring a small gay lawyer as the only defender of his illegitimate appeal. Andrew is struggling again in a controversial case, trying to prove to everyone his point of view under many criticisms.
1969, Westbury, New York, USA
1970
29 March 1987, New Jersey, USA
5 January 1944, New York City, New York, USA
1942, Ontario, Canada
25 November 1947, Jersey City, New Jersey, USA
19 August 1944, Detroit, Michigan, USA
13 July 1921, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA
18 February 1947, New York City, New York, USA
24 December 1931, Teaneck, New Jersey, USA
10 August 1960, Málaga, Málaga, Andalucía, Spain
2 January 1956, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
May 29, 2013
What remains most striking about Philadelphia may be the...conspicuous emphasis on intense close-ups. They force an inescapable emotional intimacy in relation to issues the mainstream, at least at the time, would rather have looked away from. [Blu-ray]
May 20, 2003
"Philadelphia" mostly succeeds in being forceful, impassioned and moving, sometimes even rising to the full range of emotion that its subject warrants. But too often, even at its most assertive, it works in safely predictable ways.
January 01, 2000
This AIDS courtroom drama is so pumped full of nitrous oxide, you could get your teeth drilled on it.
October 10, 2008
[An] extremely well-made message picture about tolerance, justice and discrimination is pitched at mainstream audiences, befitting its position as the first major Hollywood film to directly tackle the disease.
January 01, 2000
Philadelphia breaks no new dramatic ground ... And yet Philadelphia is quite a good film, on its own terms.
October 25, 2005
The courtroom stuff is unwieldly, but everything else is brave and moving.
August 26, 2005
involving but badly cliched
April 21, 2006
Wearing its heart on its sleeves, this well-intentioned but soft and compromised AIDS drama may nonetheless perform the same function that Paltoon or Schindler's List have: Change public opinion about an urgent problem.
December 18, 2010
Moving, Oscared '90s drama fostered AIDS empathy.
June 24, 2006
Safe and apolitical it may be, but Philadelphia succeeds as a deeply affecting humanist drama.
June 14, 2015
Jonathan Demme's thoughtful human drama was certainly not the first movie to confront the AIDS crisis, but it was, even in the conventional skin of a courtroom drama, the most heartbreaking and passionate undertaking of its kind.
