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Out of the Past (1998)

2.41h 37mDocumentary
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Synopsis

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."

Movie Information

Director
Jeff Dupre
Writers
Michelle Ferrari
Release Year
1998
Runtime
97 minutes
Genre
Documentary
Language
EN
Country
United States of America
Status
Released
Rating
2.4 / 10 (4 votes)

Top Cast

Stephen Spinella — cast portrait as Michael Wigglesworth (voice)
Stephen Spinella
Michael Wigglesworth (voice)
Gwyneth Paltrow — cast portrait as Sarah Orne Jewett (voice)
Gwyneth Paltrow
Sarah Orne Jewett (voice)
Cherry Jones — cast portrait as Annie Adams Fields (voice)
Cherry Jones
Annie Adams Fields (voice)
Edward Norton — cast portrait as Henry Gerber (voice)
Edward Norton
Henry Gerber (voice)
Linda Hunt — cast portrait as Self - Narrator (voice)
Linda Hunt
Self - Narrator (voice)
Leland Gantt — cast portrait as Bayard Rustin (voice)
Leland Gantt
Bayard Rustin (voice)
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Bayard Rustin
Self

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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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