I was amazed by the moving and well tuned portrayal of Harvey Milk by Sean Penn. He was able to take up some of Harvey's mannerisms, seemingly pretty naturally. The movie serves double duty by filling in a lot of the background of the story of gay rights, Anita Bryant, and Prop 6 which many today don't know unless they are history buffs or into reading about the topic. There is also a fine, if placid, soundtrack by Danny Elfman.
A few straight friends have said the movie was boring (actually they said they fell asleep watching it). I wonder if I wasn't gay if I would say (have done) the same thing. Perhaps. Hey folks, a forewarning: this is not an action flick.
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