FAME READS / SCREEN NOTES
Philadelphia
Scores
- Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer83%as of 2026-01-16
- Rotten Tomatoes average6.8/10as of 2021-10-05
- Metacritic66/100as of 2026-01-16
What it is
Philadelphia is a 1993 American legal drama film directed and produced by Jonathan Demme, written by Ron Nyswaner, and starring Tom Hanks and Denzel Washington. Filmed on location in its namesake city, it tells the story of attorney Andrew Beckett (Hanks) who comes to ask a personal injury attorney, Joe Miller (Washington), to help him sue his former law firm, who fired him after discovering he was gay and that he
At a glance
- Genres
- Drama
- Original language
- English
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