Movie
1993
Philadelphia is a 1993 American legal drama film directed and produced by Jonathan Demme, written by Ron Nyswaner, and starring Tom Hanks and Denzel Washington. Filmed on location in its namesake city, it tells the story of attorney Andrew Beckett (Hanks) who comes to ask a personal injury attorney, Joe Miller (Washington), to help him sue his former law firm, who fired him after discovering he was gay and that he…
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There are many movies that are remembered for the wrong reasons, and *Philadelphia*, 1993 courtroom drama directed by Jonathan Demme, is one of them. Instead being remembered by its own merit, it is only a footnote in a tale about moving 1994 Oscar acceptance speech by Tom Hanks - occasion that inspired a movie by itself (*In & Out* by Frank Oz). And it is really sad, since *Philadelphia* happened to be the very fir…More
