Milk [videorecording] / Focus Features presents in association with Axon Films, a Groundswell production, a Jinks/Cohen Company production, a Gus Van Sant film ; produced by Dan Jinks and Bruce Cohen ; written by Dustin Lance Black ; directed by Gus Van Sant.
Title from container. Sean Penn, Emile Hirsch, Josh Brolin, Diego Luna, James Franco. Originally released as a motion picture in 2008. Blu-ray disc (BD) Special features: "Remembering Harvey:" revealing film clips, photos and stories (in HD); "Hollywood comes to San Francisco:" join the cast and crew (in HD); "Marching for equality:" key figures from Milk's life reflect on the marches of the 1970s (in HD); BD-Live: collect your own movie clips with My Scenes, then send them through an Internet-connected player.
Summary:
His life changed history. His courage changed lives. Harvey Milk is a middle-aged New Yorker who, after moving to San Francisco, became a Gay Rights activist and city politician. On his third attempt, he was elected to San Francisco's Board of Supervisors in 1977. His election makes him the first openly gay man to be elected to public office in the United States. The following year, both he and the city's mayor, George Moscone, were shot to death by former city supervisor, Dan White, who blamed his former colleagues for denying White's attempt to rescind his resignation from the board. Based on the inspiring true story of Harvey Milk.
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