The film was the first Hollywood big-budget, big-star film to tackle the issue of AIDS in the United States (following the television film And the Band Played On) and signaled a shift in Hollywood films toward more realistic depictions of people in the LGBT community. [18][19] According to a Tom Hanks interview for the 1995 documentary The.. Since the 1980s, movies have depicted HIV and the AIDS epidemic. From Philadelphia to Holding The Man, here are 12 must-see HIV/AIDS films.
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An AIDS-stricken woman becomes a leader in the struggle to educate people about the disease and its prevention.. Philadelphia (1993) At the time of this film's release, there was a tremendous reluctance from major Hollywood studios to produce a film about the AIDS crisis. Philadelphia is the first major studio movie to tackle the epidemic head-on and this classic contribution to gay cinema stars Tom Hanks and Denzel Washington.