R | 1 h 37 min | Documentary

IMDB 7.1 / 10 (191 votes)

Out of the Past (1998)

Out of the Past

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."

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Description

Director

Jeff Dupre

Stars

Stephen Spinella
Michael Wigglesworth

Madison Hamburg
Self

Jill Platt
Self - Great Aunt

Gwyneth Paltrow
Sarah Orne Jewett (voice)

Barbara Hamburg
Self (archive footage)

Conway Beach
Self - Aunt

Cherry Jones
Annie Adams Fields

Barbara Lund-Beach
Self - Grandmother

Edward Norton
Henry Gerber (voice)

Barbara Beach-Hamburg
Self - Mother of Madison (archive footage)

Others...

Revenue

8.00

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Keywords

lgbt, gay

Trailers

Production

N/A

Actor

Stephen Spinella, Madison Hamburg, Jill Platt, Gwyneth Paltrow, Barbara Hamburg, Conway Beach, Cherry Jones, Barbara Lund-Beach, Edward Norton, Barbara Beach-Hamburg, Linda Hunt

Creators

Matthias Gohl (Original Music Composer), Jeff Dupre (Director), Michelle Ferrari (Writer), Ron Nyswaner (Executive Producer), Neda Armian (Executive Producer), Toby Oppenheimer (Executive Producer), Madison Hamburg (Executive Producer), Stacey Offman (Executive Producer), Richard Perello (Executive Producer), Evan Lerner (Co-Executive Producer), Whitney Johnson (Supervising Producer), Solomon Petchenik (Producer)

Release dates

31.07.1998 (US)

Out of the Past (1998)

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