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Out of the Past (1998)

ALL 07/31/1998 (en) Documentary 97 Min
  • Release
    07/31/1998
  • Production
  • Rotten tomato
    8%
  • Original title
    Out of the Past
  • Original language
    en
  • Production Cost
  • 8.00
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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."

  1. Jeff Dupre

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Editor

  4. Producer



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Casts

  1. Stephen Spinella

    Michael Wigglesworth (voice)

  2. Gwyneth Paltrow

    Sarah Orne Jewett (voice)

  3. Cherry Jones

    Annie Adams Fields (voice)

  4. Edward Norton

    Henry Gerber (voice)

  5. Linda Hunt

    Narrator

  6. Leland Gantt

    Bayard Rustin (voice)

  7. Bayard Rustin

    Self

Full Cast & Crew

Casts : 7 , Crews : 3

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Out of the Past (1998) 97 Min

ALL 07/31/1998 (en)
Documentary
  • Release 07/31/1998
  • Production
  • Original title Out of the Past
  • en
  • Revenue8.00

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."

  1. Jeff Dupre

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Editor

  4. Producer



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