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Release date United States: Thursday, December 4, 2008

Director: Gus Van Sant

Cast:

Sean Penn as Harvey Milk
Emile Hirsch as Cleve Jones
James Franco as Scott Smith
Josh Brolin as Dan White
Diego Luna as Jack Lira
Brandon Boyce as Jim Rivaldo
Kelvin Yu as Michael Wong
Lucas Grabeel as Danny Nicoletta
Alison Pill as Anne Kronenberg
Victor Garber as Mayor George Moscone
Denis O'Hare as State Senator John Briggs
Howard Rosenman as David Goodstein
Stephen Spinella as Rick Stokes
Tom Ammiano as Himself
Carol Ruth Silver as Thelma

About:

Harvey Milk (1930-1978) was an activist and politician, and the first openly gay man to be elected to public office in America; in 1977, he was voted to the city supervisors' board of San Francisco. The following year, both he and the city's mayor George Moscone were shot to death by another city supervisor, Dan White. Mr. Milk was previously the subject of the Academy Award-winning documentary feature "The Times of Harvey Milk," but "Milk" is the first non-documentary feature to explore the man's life and career.

Genres:
Drama - Biography

Producers: Bruce Cohen, Dan Jinks, Michael London

Writers: Dustin Lance Black

Studio: Focus Features