Director
The actual experiences of New York City subway riders are dramatized in a collection of 10 intriguing and very different vignettes. The tales showcase an ensemble of familiar faces, and range from stories of compassion and love to reflections on violence and loss. Among them: a disabled beggar quarrels with a woman and ruins her shoes with his wheelchair, provoking onlookers to wrath and pity; a skittish tourist proves to be her own worst enemy; a newlywed trysts with a mysterious sexpot; a commuter helplessly witnesses a suicide attempt; and, in the most affecting segment, a young woman grieves over her mother's imminent death.
Director
A runaway teenage girl and a drifter rob a bank, hit the road to elude the Texas Rangers and find love on the run.
Editor
Secrets from the Dolly Madison Room This thoughts and feelings of gays with AIDS are revealed in this documentary set in a New York West Village clinic. One of the patients dies during the course of the film. The patients speak with candor and humor about their grave condition, about the support they give each other, and about their preparations for death. The outcome alternates between pathos and the upbeat.
Director
Secrets from the Dolly Madison Room This thoughts and feelings of gays with AIDS are revealed in this documentary set in a New York West Village clinic. One of the patients dies during the course of the film. The patients speak with candor and humor about their grave condition, about the support they give each other, and about their preparations for death. The outcome alternates between pathos and the upbeat.
Robert
フィラデルフィアの一流法律会社に務めるアンドリュー・ベケット(トム・ハンクス)は、ある日突然エイズと宣告され、ウィラー社長(ジェイソン・ロバーズ)に解雇される。不当な差別に怒ったベケットは、損害賠償と地位の保全を求めて訴訟を決意。だが、次々と弁護を断わられた彼は、以前敵同士として渡り合ったやり手の弁護士ジョー・ミラー(デンゼル・ワシントン)を訪ねる。ミラーはエイズに対して、抜きがたい恐怖を感じていた。しかし、世間の冷たい視線に対しても毅然と対処し、熱心に資料を漁るべケットの姿に、ミラーの心は動かされる。ミラーは弁護を引き受け、母のサラ(ジョアン・ウッドワード)をはじめ、ベケットの肉親たちは彼に熱い支援を約束する。解雇から7カ月後、〈自由と兄弟愛の街〉フィラデルフィアで注目の裁判が開廷した。ミラーは解雇が明らかな法律違反だと主張したが、対する会社側の主任弁護士ベリンダ(メアリー・スティーンバージェン)は、彼の弁護士としての不適格性を激しく突く。予断を許さぬ裁断の行方と並行して、ベケットの症状は次第に悪化していく。裁判を優先させて本格的治療を先に延ばそうとする彼に、恋人でライフパートナーのミゲール(アントニオ・バンデラス)は苛立つ。ベケットは恋人のため、自分のためにパーティを開く。遂にベケットは裁判中に倒れ、病院に運ばれた。ミラーは原告側の勝訴の報を、ベッドの上のベケットに告げる。数日後、大勢の人々に見守られながらベケットは静かに息を引き取り、ミラーはかけがいのない友の死を実感した。
Associate Producer
Robert Castle is the idealistic pastor of St. Mary's Episcopal Church in Harlem, and also the cousin of filmmaker Jonathan Demme. Demme's affectionate portrait of his cousin traces Castle's story, beginning with his first parish assignment, in New Jersey in the early 1960s, in an increasingly African-American-populated neighborhood rocked by violence and civil rights protests. The film raises intimate discussions of race, faith and family, while also showing Castle's daily routine as a pastor.