Milk
Headline: ** True Life Story of Homosexual Advocate **
Title: MILK
Quality: * * * * Acceptability: -4
SUBTITLES: None
WARNING CODES:
Language: LLL
Violence: VV
Sex: SSS
Nudity: NN
RATING: R
RELEASE: November 28, 2008
TIME: 128 minutes
STARRING: Sean Penn, Emile Hirsch, Josh Brolin, James Franco, Diego Luna, Alison Pill, Victor Garber, and Denis O'Hare
DIRECTOR: Gus Van Sant
PRODUCERS: Dan Junks and Bruce Cohen
EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS: Michael London, Dustin Lance Black, Bruna Papandrea, Barbara A. Hall, and William Horberg
WRITER: Dustin Lance Black
BASED ON THE NOVEL/PLAY BY: None
DISTRIBUTOR: Focus Features/Universal/General Electric
CONTENT: (HH, PCPCPC, HoHoHo, AbAb, LLL, VV, SSS, NN, A, DD, M) Strong humanist worldview mixed with very strong politically correct pro-homosexual content (including some crude elements), as well as many anti-God and anti-Christian statements; 27 obscenities (mostly "f" words and including some obscene slang for male private parts), four profanities and vulgar slang for homosexuals; man shoots another man point blank with slow motion of the death, man shoots another man off-screen and man hangs himself; multiple scenes of homosexual kissing, men in bed together, and two men playfully "wrestle" naked, but in low light; rear and upper male nudity in scene where two nude men playfully "wrestle," rear male nudity in photo and upper male nudity elsewhere; alcohol use; smoking cigarettes and marijuana use; and, lying.
GENRE: Drama
INTENDED AUDIENCE: Older teenagers and adults
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SUMMARY: MILK is the true story of Harvey Milk, who was the first openly homosexual man to hold public office in San Fransciso in the late 1970s. MILK is very well made and well acted by Sean Penn but contains anti-God sentiments along with a clearly politically correct, pro-homosexual political message.
IN BRIEF:
MILK is the true story of Harvey Milk, the first openly homosexual man to hold public office in San Fransciso in the late 1970s. As an advocate for homosexual rights, Milk ran for public office. After two unsuccessful attempts, he becomes a Supervisor. Fellow Supervisor Dan White becomes jealous of Milk's success and resigns. Later, he tries to get his job back. Milk convinces the Mayor not to let him back, since White often voted against Milk's legislation. White sneaks a gun into the capitol and kills both Mayor Moscone and Harvey Milk.
MILK is extremely well made and brilliantly acted by Sean Penn. The emotion is strong, the story compelling, and the directing is very powerful. All the elements of a well-made movie come together to make this movie very moving. It's a movie that chronicles a piece of history, but it is filled with anti-God sentiments in a strong humanist context, especially in reaction to comments against homosexuality made by Christian celebrity Anita Bryant. There is also plenty of foul language, brief nudity and many scenes of homosexual characters in bed together. MILK clearly pushes a politically correct agenda.
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