Philadelphia [VHS]
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Movies/TV › Feature Film Drama
ISBN: 043396526136 / Publisher: Columbia Tri-Star, February 1995
A young Philadelphia lawyer with AIDS is the victim of irrational fear of the disease and fights back in the courts where even his own attorney is phobic.
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Jonathan Demme's landmark film (the first mainstream Hollywood movie about AIDS) features Tom Hanks's Oscar-winning performance as Andrew Beckett, a lawyer who is fired from his law firm after it is discovered that he is gay and is afflicted with AIDS. Denzel Washington costars as a homophobic attorney who agrees to take Beckett's case when he sues the firm for discrimination
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