Milk

Fri 23 Jan 2009 – Thu 29 Jan 2009

Milk (15) 128 mins/US/2008

Dir. Gus Van Sant

Starring: Sean Penn, Emile Hirsch, Josh Brolin

1972, San Francisco, and newly out New Yorker Harvey Milk is determined to turn his new home on Castro Street into a gay-friendly refuge. As Milk fights overwhelming odds to be elected to public office, he realises that his local problem has assumed national significance.