The Celluloid Closet
1996-01-30 | 102 minutes
Plot Summary
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.
Cast
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Lily TomlinNarrator (voice)
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Tony CurtisSelf
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Susan SarandonSelf
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Gore VidalSelf
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Whoopi GoldbergSelf
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Antonio FargasSelf
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Shirley MacLaineSelf
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John SchlesingerSelf
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Armistead MaupinSelf
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Arthur LaurentsSelf
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Tom HanksSelf
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Farley GrangerSelf
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Quentin CrispSelf
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Harry HamlinSelf
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Sharon StoneSelf
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Susie BrightSelf
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Jay Presson AllenSelf
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Jan OxenbergSelf
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The Women
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Putting It Together
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Servants of Twilight
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Fish out of Water
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The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert
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All the Money in the World
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Prometheus
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The Shining
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The Avengers
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Deadpool
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Skyfall
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Looper
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Titanic
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Frozen
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Star Trek Into Darkness
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Léon: The Professional
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Star Wars
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