2008 · drama · biography
Milk
Directed by Gus Van Sant2h 8m2008
The true story of Harvey Milk, the first openly gay man ever elected to public office. In San Francisco in the late 1970s, Harvey Milk becomes an activist for gay rights and inspires others to join him in his fight for equal rights that should be available to all Americans.
Our read: Milk (2008) reads as a neutral, steady, grounded drama · biography entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, steady, measured drama / biography, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
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