The Movies canon

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Milk

Directed by Gus Van Sant
2008

Van Sant shot in the actual Castro Street storefront where Harvey Milk ran his campaigns: Sean Penn plays the first openly gay man elected to major office in California, and plays him delighted.

★ 5.7