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Celluloid Closet

Released

1996

1h 42Min

4K

7.1

16+

What "That's Entertainment" did for movie musicals, "The Celluloid Closet" does for Hollywood homosexuality, as this exuberant, eye-opening movie serves up a dazzling hundred-year history of the role of gay men and lesbians have had on the silver screen. Lily Tomlin narrates as Oscar-winning moviemaker Rob Epstein ("The Times of Harvey Milk" and "Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt") and Jeffrey Friedman assemble fabulous footage from 120 films showing the changing face of cinema sexuality, from cruel stereotypes to covert love to the activist triumphs of the 1990s. Tom Hanks, Susan Sarandon, Whoopi Goldberg, Tony Curtis, Harvey Fierstein and Gore Vidal are just a few of the many actors, writers and commentators who provide funny and insightful anecdotes.

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Lily Tomlin

as Narrator (voice)

Tony Curtis

as Self

Susan Sarandon

as Self

Gore Vidal

as Self

Whoopi Goldberg

as Self

Antonio Fargas

as Self

Shirley MacLaine

as Self

John Schlesinger

as Self

Armistead Maupin

as Self

Arthur Laurents

as Self

Tom Hanks

as Self

Farley Granger

as Self

Quentin Crisp

as Self

Harry Hamlin

as Self

Sharon Stone

as Self

Susie Bright

as Self

Mart Crowley

as Self

Jay Presson Allen

as Self

Richard Dyer

as Self

Jan Oxenberg

as Self

Paul Rudnick

as Self

Barry Sandler

as Self

Ron Nyswaner

as Self

Daniel Melnick

as Self

Stewart Stern

as Self

Harvey Fierstein

as Self

Paul Newman

as Self (archive footage)

James Dean

as Self (archive footage)

Sal Mineo

as Self (archive footage)

Natalie Wood

as Self (archive footage)

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