I can't wait to see it. Sean Penn is a fearless actor, imo. There is an epic play "Execution of Justice" by Emily Mann on the same subject - I wonder how they will compare.

Ooh! That's good to know--dunno if I'll be able to see it here, but if not it'll definitely be showing in Vancouver while I'm there.

I want to see this so badly. I will see it soon.

Thanks for your review, treepour. I want to see it even more because of it.

I'm going to have to wait for the DVD. None of the corporate-owned movie theaters will show this movie in Houston (same with Brokeback Mountain) and the one--ONE!--theater in the 4th largest city in the country that is showing it, is showing it for such a short amount of time that I'm not going to be able to see it. Sigh.

I was just realizing I was "different" when Milk and Moscone were killed. When Dan White got a reduced sentence because of diminished capacity (the so-called "Twinkie defense") I realized that life could be exceptionally unfair for "different" people like me.

Ironically, California abolished the diminished capacity defense by amending its constitution in 1982 via a proposition ... numbered eight.

I am upset that it's not opening in Eugene for awhile. . .

I'm going to try to see it this weekend. I live near the Castro theater, but I'm not sure if the entire run is already sold out ..? I was nervous about seeing it right now, that I'd just start balling thinking about how Milk and everyone won the Knight initiative battle and we lost 8, but your review makes me think it won't be like that.

Also, I love love love Sean Penn. [Dead Man Walking.

Can't wait to see this -- maybe this weekend. LOVE Sean Penn. LOVE.

Today's the 30th anniversary of the murders. I remember seeing the news on TV, and how strange and terrible it seemed, right on the heels of Jonestown.

None of the corporate-owned movie theaters will show this movie in Houston (same with Brokeback Mountain) and the one--ONE!--theater in the 4th largest city in the country that is showing it, is showing it for such a short amount of time that I'm not going to be able to see it.

Holy cow, that's appalling.

Claudia_SF, the shows generally aren't being sold out. We showed up about a half hour early and still got tickets. But that was at a 4:00 show -- the 7:00 line was much, much longer. Plus, I think they're opening the balcony for this. I didn't go up there to see, but the usual ropes weren't in place.

Let me tell you, seeing the Castro Theatre's marquee in the film, while realizing that you're in that very theatre, just a couple of storefronts away from where the main story takes place . . . blew my little mind, it did.

WolfDaddy -- really? Houston isn't showing it at all? Houston has like the second or third largest gay population in the country . . . holy crap, not showing it is not only a moral affront but a bad business decision, and most Houstonians I've met considered business at least as important as church. When I lived there, there were at least a few independent movie houses that would show interesting things -- none of them will be showing Milk? (Then again, it opened at the Castro in SF a week early, so maybe there's still hope . . . ?)

On the one hand I sort of hate Gus Van Sant but on the other I love Harvey Milk so much that I'm proud that I *do* live in GVS's town and it premiered here.

Not only did White rob us of Milk and Moscone, he saddled us (well, when I was a San Franciscan anyway) with Feinstein, making a great showing of regress.

I used to live on 15th and Noe, and it's cool to read that Given turned into Castro Camera for the film, especially because that storefront changed hands so often while I lived there. It's nice that a well curated shop can be there now.