Milk Movie
Milk is a film about California's first openly gay elected official, Harvey Milk, who was assassinated on November 27, 1978. The film was shot on location in San Francisco and directed by Gus Van Sant. The city's Casto Street, where Harvey Milk owned a camera shop, was transformed for the film in January, 2008 to look as it did in the 1970s. The producers felt that the life of Harvey Milk was "such a San Francisco story" that the film had to be shot on location. Milk is one of two films about Milk's life expected to be released around the same time. The other is The Mayor of Castro Street, directed by Bryan Singer.
Fast Facts
- Release date: December 5, 2008
- Director: Gus Van Sant
- Screenwriter: Dustin Lance Black
- Producer: Dan Jinks, Bruce Cohen
- Distributor: Focus Features
- Starring: Sean Penn, Emile Hirsch, Josh Brolin, James Franco and Diego Luna
- MPAA: R
- Budget: $15 million
- Shot on location in San Francisco
- About the life of Harvey Milk
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