Milk

Movie • 2008 • Biography  

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The true story of Harvey Milk, the first openly gay man ever elected to public office. In San Francisco in the late 1970s, Harvey Milk becomes an activist for gay rights and inspires others to join him in his fight for equal rights that should be available to all Americans.
This movie contains 11 potentially triggering events.
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Does the dog die?
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Were animals harmed in the making?
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Is an animal abandoned?
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Is there genital trauma/mutilation?
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Is a woman brutalized for spectacle?
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Is an animal sad?
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Are rabbits harmed?
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Are there abusive parents?
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Are there transphobic slurs?
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Abuse
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Not in the movie, but a character mentions that his father beat him when he found out he was gay.
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Is someone gaslighted?
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Is a child abused?
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Not on screen, and not a young child, but a young gay man, maybe a teenager, who is confined to a wheelchair, mentions that his parents are going to send him to a hospital to "fix him". One can easily assume this is some sort of conversion therapy, which is considered a form of abuse. This causes the young man to express feelings of suicide. You only see this character briefly and you don't see what happens to him, but under the category of abuse it seemed worth mentioning.
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Animal
Does a horse die?
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Does an animal die?
(besides a dog, cat or horse)
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Are animals abused?
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Is there a dead animal?
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Does a cat die?
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Does a pet die?
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Does a dragon die?
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Are there spiders?
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Are there snakes?
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Are there bugs?
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Assault
Is there pedophilia?
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Is rape mentioned?
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Is someone sexually assaulted?
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Bodily Harm
Is there cannibalism?
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Is someone burned alive?
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Is someone buried alive?
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Does a head get squashed?
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Is there a hanging?
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A character completes suicide by hanging.

National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 800-273-TALK (8255)
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Does someone break a bone?
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Does someone have a seizure?
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Are any teeth damaged?
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Is there finger/toe mutilation?
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Is someone tortured?
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Does someone fall to their death?
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Is there eye mutilation?
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Is there excessive gore?
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Children
Does a kid die?
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Is a minor sexualized?
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Family
Does a parent die?
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They don't show that the parents die but Harvey milk talks about how his parents aren't alive anymore
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Is someone kidnapped?
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Fear
Are there ghosts?
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Are there jump scares?
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Are there clowns?
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Is someone possessed?
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Gross
Does someone vomit?
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Is there audio gore?
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Medical
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Are needles/syringes used?
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queenbnjrd
No but someone talks about their parents sending them to one
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Does someone have cancer?
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Mental Health
Does someone self harm?
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Is there autism specific abuse?
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Are there anxiety attacks?
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Is there body dysmorphia?
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At 42 minutes some of the scenes are filmed from the perspective of a person within a large crowd of angry protesters. They way it looks might give someone feelings of claustrophobia.
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Noxious
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Mostly no, but there are a few scenes during protests where the camera is shakey and it's being filmed from the perspective of a person in the crowd.
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Are there flashing lights or images?
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Pregnancy
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Is there childbirth?
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Are there abortions?
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Does a pregnant person die?
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Prejudice
Are there homophobic slurs?
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This is a biopic of gay rights activist Harvey Milk, who was the first openly gay person elected to public office in the U.S. Unfortunately, he was assissinated and if you're unaware of this incident, you find out anyway within the first few minutes of the movie, via flashbacks to a press conference, that he will eventually be killed, so no spoilers knowing this before watching the movie.

There's also a death of a peripheral LGBTQ+ character.
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Are there fat jokes?
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Does the black guy die first?
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Is there hate speech?
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There's hate speech directed at LGBTQ+ people, but it's there for context and accuracy of the history of what LGBTQ+ peoples had to endure in the 1970s.
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Sex
Is there bestiality?
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Are there incestuous relationships?
National Sexual Assault Hotline 800.656.4673
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Is short an not very explicit
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Spoiler
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It's sad but somewhat hopeful
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Vehicular
Does a car crash?
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Does a plane crash?
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Is someone hit by a car?
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Violence
Does someone drown?
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Is there blood/gore?
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Is there a nuclear explosion?
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A gun is used to assassinate someone.
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