Product Information
Shot on location in San Francisco, this biopic from director Gus Van Sant explores the life of Harvey Milk. Oscar winner Sean Penn stars as the gay activist who broke barriers by becoming the first openly gay man to win an election for public office in America. MILK also stars Emile Hirsch (INTO THE WILD), Josh Brolin (NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN), Diego Luna (Y TU MAMA TAMBIEN), and James Franco (SPIDER-MAN).Product Identifiers
ProducerDan Jinks, Bruce Cohen
EAN5060116723892
eBay Product ID (ePID)72547566
Product Key Features
ActorJosh Brolin, Emile Hirsch, Sean Penn, Diego Luna, James Franco
Film/TV TitleMilk
DirectorGus Van Sant
LanguageEnglish
Run Time122 Mins
Aspect Ratio16:9 Anamorphic Wide Screen
Release Year2009
FormatDVD
FeaturesWidescreen, Closed Caption, Deleted Scenes\Remembering Harvey\Hollywood Comes to San Francisco\Marching for Equality\Trailers
GenreDrama, General
Additional Product Features
Number of Discs1
Certificate15
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited States of America
ComposerDanny Elfman
Costume DesignerDanny Glicker
Sound sourceDolby Digital
Director of PhotographyHarris Savides
Consumer AdviceContains strong language and sex references
Hearing ImpairedEnglish
Production DesignerBill Groom
AwardsBest Actor In A Leading Role 2009 - Sean Penn, Best Screenplay Written Directly For The Screen 2009 - Dustin Black
Additional InformationMILK is director Gus Van Sant's riveting biopic about slain gay rights activist and San Francisco city supervisor Harvey Milk. Based on the politically resonant and thoroughly timely screenplay of documentarian Dustin Lance Black, Van Sant follows the arc of Milk's political awakening, from closeted Brooklyn insurance executive to doyen of San Francisco's Castro district's burgeoning gay Mecca in the 1970s. Sean Penn portrays the film's hero, melting into the role with an affable flamboyance that is both spirited and eminently engaging. James Franco plays opposite Penn as Milk's supportive and easygoing boyfriend, Scott Smith. The couple's cheerful and loving rapport lends buoyancy to the film's overall message of hope as Milk ascends from grassroots community organiser to a galvanising figurehead in the push for gay civil liberties. When Moral Majority crusader Anita Bryant forms an initiative to root out gay teachers and their supporters from public schools (Proposition 6), Milk is pitted in a bitter battle against fellow City Hall supervisor Dan White, played by Josh Brolin. While Van Sant does not deviate from the expository conventions that have defined other biopics, MILK sticks to biographically pertinent details that serve the film's underlying message of one man's idealism and conviction in the face of repression and bigotry.
ReviewsUSA Today - MILK has one of the finest ensemble casts this year and a magnificent, career-topping performance by Sean Penn, who disappears into the title role, New York Times - Harvey Milk was an intriguing, inspiring figure. MILK is a marvel....A fascinating, multi-layered history lesson, In Style - Absolutely brilliant, Heat - A life-affirmingly vibrant, witty and deeply compelling film, Variety - [T]he filmmakers have crucially infused the story with qualities in very short supply today -- gentleness and a humane embrace of all its characters..., Time Out - Sean Penn is electric, Rolling Stone - It's a total triumph, brimming with humor, heart, sexual heat, political provocation and a crying need to stir things up, just like Harvey did, Los Angeles Times - Penn, as we've come to expect, is extremely persuasive as someone with a different, more offbeat kind of charisma than many of his previous screen roles....Franco is a nice match for him....It's a powerful story
ScreenwriterDustin Black
Format DescriptionDVD 9
EditorElliot Graham