Philadelphia (1993)
The American legal drama film, Philadelphia (1993), was written by Ron Nyswaner and directed by Jonathan Demme. Andrew Beckett, a senior associate at the largest corporate law firm in the city, keeps his homosexuality and status as an AIDS patient hidden from his colleagues. Despite attributing a lesion on his forehead to a racquetball injury, it is actually Kaposi’s sarcoma, a defining condition of AIDS. Beckett takes several days off work to try and conceal the lesions and manages to finish the paperwork for an assigned case. He then instructs his assistants to file it the next day, coinciding with the end of the statute of limitations for the case.
The following day, a call comes in requesting the paperwork, which cannot be located and has no copies saved on the computer’s hard drive. Eventually, it is discovered in another place and filed with the court just in time. The morning after, Beckett is summoned to a meeting where he is terminated by the firm’s partners. He suspects that someone purposely hid the paperwork to use as an excuse for firing him due to his AIDS status and sexual orientation. He reaches out to ten attorneys for assistance, with the final one being African-American personal injury lawyer Joe Miller, who Beckett had previously opposed in another case. Miller appears uneasy about having a client with AIDS in his office.
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Cast:  Tom HanksAndrew Beckett  Denzel WashingtonJoe Miller  Antonio BanderasMiguel Alvarez  Jason RobardsCharles Wheeler  Mary SteenburgenBelinda Conine  Joanne WoodwardSarah Beckett  Charles NapierJudge Garnett |
The American legal drama film, Philadelphia (1993), was written by Ron Nyswaner and directed by Jonathan Demme. Andrew Beckett, a senior associate at the largest corporate law firm in the city, keeps his homosexuality and status as an AIDS patient hidden from his colleagues. Despite attributing a lesion on his forehead to a racquetball injury, it is actually Kaposi’s sarcoma, a defining condition of AIDS. Beckett takes several days off work to try and conceal the lesions and manages to finish the paperwork for an assigned case. He then instructs his assistants to file it the next day, coinciding with the end of the statute of limitations for the case.
The following day, a call comes in requesting the paperwork, which cannot be located and has no copies saved on the computer’s hard drive. Eventually, it is discovered in another place and filed with the court just in time. The morning after, Beckett is summoned to a meeting where he is terminated by the firm’s partners. He suspects that someone purposely hid the paperwork to use as an excuse for firing him due to his AIDS status and sexual orientation. He reaches out to ten attorneys for assistance, with the final one being African-American personal injury lawyer Joe Miller, who Beckett had previously opposed in another case. Miller appears uneasy about having a client with AIDS in his office.
