Movie Description
Out of the Past
(1998)Overview
In 1995, Kelli Peterson started a gay and straight club at her Salt Lake City high school. The story of her ensuing battle with school authorities in interspersed with looks back at the diary of Michael Wigglesworth, a 17th-century Puritan cleric, at the 30-year love affair of Sarah Orne Jewett and Annie Adams Fields, at Henry Gerber's attempt after World War I to establish a gay-rights organization, at Bayard Rustin's role in the civil rights movement, and at Barbara Gittings' taking on of the American Psychiatric Association's position that homosexuality is illness. One person comments, "To create a place for ourselves in the present, we have to find ourselves in the past."
Featured Crew
- Director : Jeff Dupre
- Writer : Michelle Ferrari
- Cast : Stephen Spinella,Gwyneth Paltrow,Cherry Jones,Edward Norton,Linda Hunt,Leland Gantt,Bayard Rustin
Cast
Michael Wigglesworth (voice)
Sarah Orne Jewett (voice)
Annie Adams Fields (voice)
Henry Gerber (voice)
Self - Narrator (voice)
Bayard Rustin (voice)
Self
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Facts
Original TitleOut of the Past
Status Released
Release Information
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1998-07-31
Original LanguageEnglish
Runtime 01h 37m
Revenue₹ 8
Homepagehttp://www.videodetective.com/movies/out-of-the-past/90187
Genres
- Documentary
