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The life story of the visionary and charismatic political activist Harvey Milk. Milk was the first openly gay candidate ever elected to political office in California, but after only serving eleven months as city supervisor of San Francisco, Milk, along with the popular mayor George Moscone, was assassinated by deranged ex-supervisor Dan White. White's unusually lenient sentencing for double murder (five and one-half years with no psychiatric counseling) based in part on his now infamous "Twinkie defense" (junk food altered his brain chemistry), provoked violence and rioting from an outraged public.
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| Production Status: |
Released |
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| Logline: |
A documentary of the career and assasination of San Francisco's first elected gay councillor. |
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| Genres: |
Documentary and Special Interest |
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| Running Time: |
1 hr. 27 min. |
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| Release Date: |
January 1, 1984; January 19, 2001 Sundance '01 |
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| MPAA Rating: |
Not Rated |
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| Distributors: |
New Yorker Films
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| Production Co.: |
Black Sand Productions, Harvey Milk Film Project
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| U.S. Box Office: |
$13,561 |
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| Produced in: |
United States |
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