Entertainment & Sports
Dec. 23, 2022
Stream it Tonight! Philadelphia (1993)
Under the movie industry’s censorship code, which remained in effect from 1934 to 1968, homosexuality was a subject that didn’t exist explicitly in the movies for decades because it was forbidden.
Paul Bergman
Professor Emeritus
UCLA School of Law
Email: bergman@law.ucla.edu
Paul continues teaching evidence.
Michael Asimow
Professor
UCLA School of Law
Email: asimow@law.ucla.edu
Michael is Dean's Executive professor of law at Santa Clara Law School, teaching contracts as well as law and popular culture.
Why Watch? An epic courtroom battle pits a big law associate afflicted with AIDS against the partners who fired him.
Andrew Beckett (Tom Hanks) sues the law firm in which he had been an associate for firing him illegally when a partner recognized from a lesion on Beckett's face that he had AIDS. The firm counters that Beckett was dismissed for poor work performance.
Joe Miller (Denzel Washington), who i...
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