Very Compelling

Rating: 8/10 (15 December 2014)

The story of Harvey Milk (Sean Penn), and his struggles as an American gay activist who fought for gay rights and became California's first openly gay elected official.
This is a solid cast, with the best performance James Franco ever gave, and Emile Hirsch (with an even better performance than "Into the Wild"). And the makeup department did a fine job making them look like their real world counterparts.
While a bit more focus on Milk's Jewish roots might have been nice, this was not germane to the film and can probably be overlooked. In fact, this picture serves as a broad overview of gay rights history. How accurate it is may be debatable, but it will have those who are curious looking into more about the Castro, Milk, Anita Bryant and other things brought up here.