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The Celluloid Closet
Film / 1996

The Celluloid Closet

Directed by Rob EpsteinJeffrey Friedman
DocumentaryHistory

★ 7.2/10Audience rating

Exuberant, eye-opening movie that serves up a dazzling hundred-year history of the role of gay men and lesbians have had on the silver screen. Film contains 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.

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Exuberant, eye-opening movie that serves up a dazzling hundred-year history of the role of gay men and lesbians have had on the silver screen. Film contains 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.

Cast

Lily TomlinNarrator (voice) Tony CurtisSelf Susan SarandonSelf Gore VidalSelf Whoopi GoldbergSelf Antonio FargasSelf Shirley MacLaineSelf John SchlesingerSelf Armistead MaupinSelf Arthur LaurentsSelf Tom HanksSelf Farley GrangerSelf
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Quentin CrispSelf Harry HamlinSelf Sharon StoneSelf Susie BrightSelf Mart CrowleySelf Jay Presson AllenSelf Richard DyerSelf Jan OxenbergSelf Paul RudnickSelf Barry SandlerSelf Ron NyswanerSelf Daniel MelnickSelf Stewart SternSelf Harvey FiersteinSelf

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