Sean Penn - Milk Movie Synopsis, Review, Critic, Trailer

Milk Movie Synopsis
After moving to San Francisco, the middle-aged New Yorker, Harvey Milk, became a Gay Rights activist and city politician. On his third attempt, he was elected to San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors in 1977, making him the first openly gay man to be elected to public office in the USA. 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. Mr. Milk had been the subject of several books and the Academy Award-winning documentary feature, The Times of Harvey Milk (1984); but Milk (2008) is the first fictional feature to explore private aspects of the man’s personal life and career. Milk was filmed on location in San Francisco. Many of Mr Milk’s real-life surviving friends and former associates participated in the making of this film, several appearing on camera.

Milk Movie Review and Critic
Sean Penn isn’t exactly lacking in award statuettes but his carefully rendered and extremely endearing performance as martyred gay politician Harvey Milk in Gus Van Sant’s biopic should earn him yet more hardware. It’s hard to imagine another actor so effectively capturing the same blend of pluck, canniness and exuberance that made Milk a key figure not just in the gay-rights movement of the ’70s but in the lives of his friends and colleagues. A movie review and critic By Jason Anderson

“Milk,” written by Dustin Lance Black and directed by Gus Van Sant, is the first great film to look at civil rights from the perspective of the gay movement. The subject, of course, is the late, charismatic San Francisco gay activist and politician of the 1970s, Harvey Milk, played with extraordinary depth and wisdom by Sean Penn. “Milk” resists bumper-sticker identifications: Yes, it’s a biopic, a love story, a civil rights movie and sharp political and social commentary. But it transcends any single genre as a very human document that touches first and foremost on the need to give people hope. A movie review and critic By Kirk Honeycutt

In 1977, Harvey Milk (Sean Penn) becomes the nation’s first openly gay man to be voted into public office, joining the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. Using his victory to champion not only gay rights but human rights as well, Milk unites a diverse group of people from across the political spectrum with his outspoken manner and sense of humor. But, as he gains recognition and increases his public profile, Milk also faces hostility from fellow supervisor Dan White (Josh Brolin), the man who would ulitmately take the lives of both Milk and Mayor George Moscone (Victor Garber). A movie review and critic By ZuGuide

But good as most of the cast is, the show belongs squarely to Penn. Made to more closely resemble Milk via an elongated nose, which also makes his face look narrower, the actor socks over his characterization of a man he’s made to seem, above all, a really sweet guy, but who crucially possessed the fearlessness and toughness to be a highly successful political motivator, agitator and, ultimately, figurehead of a movement. Penn’s Harvey is a man with a ready laugh, alive to the moment, open to life regardless of neuroses and past tragedies, and acutely aware of one’s limited time on Earth. The explosive anger and fury often summoned by Penn in his work is nowhere to be seen, replaced by a geniality that is as welcome as it is unexpected. A movie review and critic By TODD MCCARTHY

Milk Movie Trailer

Milk Data Information
Movie Title : Milk
Tagline : His life changed history. His courage changed lives.
Director : Gus Van Sant
Writer : Dustin Lance Black
Movie Released : 5 December 2008 (USA)
Movie Genre : Biography | Drama
Plot Keywords: Assassination | Gay | Politics | Homophobia | Gay Rights
Cast: Sean Penn, Emile Hirsch, Josh Brolin, Diego Luna, James Franco

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