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Explain it to me like I'm a six-year-old
Tom Hanks, Denzel Washington, Antonio Banderas, Ann Dowd, and Mary Steenburgen in one film — can you imagine? You don’t have to imagine, because such a film exists: Philadelphia, Jonathan Demme’s 1993 legal drama, starring Hanks as a gay man dying of AIDS who hires a lawyer, played by Washington, to represent him when he sues the partners at his former law firm for wrongful termination. I once wondered whether a boy movie could also be a gay movie, and Philadelphia, I think, is the closest we’ve ever gotten. It’s mostly the legal drama of …
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