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April 24, 2009
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HHHH

MILK. Directed by Gus Van Sant, with Sean Penn, James Franco, Josh Brolin, Emile Hirsch, Diego Luna, Victor Garber, Denis O'Hare and Stephen Spinella.

Review: KENNETH TURAN

IT WAS partly an accident of history that made Harvey Milk the first openly gay man elected to major public office in the US, so it's fitting that yet another accident of history has made Milk, the earnest biopic about the man, more involving than it otherwise would be.

Milk was elected to San Francisco's Board of Supervisors in 1977 - after several unsuccessful attempts - because he had solidified his position as "the Mayor of Castro Street", the voice of the ...

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