James R. Elkins
"Philadelphia"
(1993)
Film Basics
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Reviews
Roger Ebert (Chicago Sun-Times)
Roy Grundmann & Peter Sacks (Cineaste)
Film Annotation: Literature, Arts, and Medicine Database
John M. Frame, Theology at the Movies
Todd McCarthy (Variety) 
Emanuel Levy Kent Ulrich (Slant) All-Reviews.com DVD Movie Guide DVD Verdict Review DVDFile.com MovieFreak.com DVD Review Warren French Washington Post Harvard Crimson
Film Background: The Wikipedia entry for "Philadelphia" notes that the film was "inspired by the story of Geoffrey Bowers, an attorney who in 1987 sued the law firm Baker & McKenzie for unfair dismissal in one of the first AIDS discrimination cases." [See: Geoffrey Bowers]
Context:
MSNBC: How Hollywood portrays AIDS
"Milk" (2008) -vs- "Philadelphia" (1993)
Film Bibliography
"Philadelphia," in Michael Asimow & Shannon Mader, Law and Popular Culture: A Course Book 203-223 (New York: Peter Lang, 2004)
Susan N. Herman, "Philadelphia (1993): Law in the City of Brotherly Love," in Rennard Strickland, Teree E. Foster & Taunya Lovell Banks (eds.), Screening Justice—The Cinema of Law: Significant Films of Law, Order and Social Justice 617-632 (Buffalo, New York: William S. Hein & Company, 2006)
"The Philadelphia Story," in Suzanna Danuta Walters, All the Rage 137-140 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001)
"Hollywood Gets AIDS," in Judy W. Pennington, The History of Sex in American Film 146-149 (Westport, Connecticut: Praeger, 2007)
Preview: Movie Trailer
Script: dailyscript.com
