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Philadelphia 125 minutes, US (1993), 12

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An AIDS-afflicted lawyer sues his law firm for wrongful dismissal with help from a homophobic ambulance chaser

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Jonathan Demme

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Philadelphia: It's one of the great hypocrisies of Hollywood that an industry whose performers had been supporting AIDS causes since the early 1980s didn't make a mainstream movie about the disease until almost a decade later...

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