The Celluloid Closet (film)
1995 American documentary film / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Celluloid Closet is a 1996 American documentary film directed and co-written by Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman, and executive produced by Howard Rosenman. The film is based on Vito Russo's 1981 book The Celluloid Closet: Homosexuality in the Movies,[2][3] and on lecture and film clip presentations he gave from 1972 to 1982. Russo had researched the history of how motion pictures, especially Hollywood films, had portrayed gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender characters.
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Narrated by | Lily Tomlin |
Cinematography | Nancy Schreiber |
Edited by | Jeffrey Friedman |
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Distributed by | Sony Pictures Classics |
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Running time | 107 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Box office | $1,400,591[1] |
The Celluloid Closet was given a limited release in select theatres, including the Castro Theatre in San Francisco in April 1996, and then shown on cable channel HBO as part of its series America Undercover.