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Filmed on location in its namesake city, it tells the story of attorney Andrew Beckett (Hanks) who comes to ask a personal injury attorney, Joe Miller (Washington), to help him sue his former employer, who fired him after discovering he was gay and that he had AIDS.
3 Jun 2022 · At the conclusion of "Philadelphia," the jury awards Andrew Beckett $143,000 in back pay and loss of benefits, $100,000 for mental anguish and humiliation, and an astonishing $4,782,000 in...
14 Jan 1994 · Philadelphia is a 1993 drama film starring Tom Hanks and Denzel Washington, directed by Jonathan Demme. It depicts the true story of Andrew Beckett, a lawyer who sued his former employer for discrimination based on his HIV status and sexual orientation.
The 1993 film starring Tom Hanks and Denzel Washington was the first major studio movie to face the AIDS epidemic head-on. It was inspired by a real-life case of a gay lawyer who sued his law firm for discrimination and featured 50 people with AIDS as extras.
But for someone at Hanks’s level to be clamouring to play dying lawyer Andrew Beckett was more than he had dared dream. “A lot of wonderful actors wanted to play Andrew,” Demme recalled in the...
20 Dis 2013 · The 1993 film starring Tom Hanks and Denzel Washington told the story of Andrew Beckett, a gay lawyer with HIV who sues his former employer. The movie, set and filmed in Philadelphia, sparked a national conversation and awareness about the epidemic.
A movie about a lawyer with AIDS who sues his former employers for discrimination and wins with the help of a homophobic lawyer. Andrew Beckett (Tom Hanks) is the main character, based on a real person who inspired the film.
