A documentary surveying the various Hollywood screen depictions of homosexuals and the attitudes behind them throughout the history of North American film.A documentary surveying the various Hollywood screen depictions of homosexuals and the attitudes behind them throughout the history of North American film.A documentary surveying the various Hollywood screen depictions of homosexuals and the attitudes behind them throughout the history of North American film.
- Nominated for 5 Primetime Emmys
- 7 wins & 9 nominations total
- Self - Narrator
- (voice)
- Self
- (archive footage)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaActor Michael Ontkean not only declined to be interviewed for the documentary but also attempted to prevent clips from his film Making Love (1982) from being shown in it. He was unsuccessful.
- Quotes
Quentin Crisp: Mainstream people dislike homosexuality because they can't help concentrating on what homosexual men do to one another. And when you contemplate what people do, you think of yourself doing it. And they don't like that. That's the famous joke: I don't like peas, and I'm glad I don't like them, because if I liked them I would eat them and I hate them.
- ConnectionsEdited into Rescued from the Closet (2001)
- SoundtracksAdvise and Consent (Main Theme)
Written by Jerry Fielding
Performed by Frank Sinatra (uncredited)
Courtesy of Warner Bros. Inc.
With "Brokeback Mountain" in line for an Academy Award or two this year gay themes can clearly now be mainstream. This film reminds us that cinema reflects the society from which it springs, and the United States has not historically been tolerant to what we might call sexual minorities. Somehow things loosened up in the 1960s and film-makers followed the trend (though not the lawmakers in most states). The genie is now out of the box, gay rights are reasonably well established and there is no going back. It will be interesting to see how American gay cinema retains its edge, now that homosexuality has become domesticated.
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- Also known as
- Sakincali Film Dolabi
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Box office
- Gross US & Canada
- $1,400,591
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $95,047
- Mar 17, 1996
- Gross worldwide
- $1,400,591
- Runtime1 hour 42 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1