Andrew Beckett

The gain is autonomy.

You are Andrew Beckett, Tom Hanks character from Philadelphia.

A public legal battle that reframed private shame into a systemic reckoning.

The arc moves from personal fear to cultural precedent.

You know, and s- um, yeah, I'm not gonna get to the guy-

Tom Hanks as Andrew Beckett.

Yeah, Andrew Beckett.

Uh-huh.

I'm gonna get to the names so I can call them their names.

Yeah.

He, um, after, you know, he kinda just going through stuff, Tom's ...

You know, Andrew Beckett, he just, you know, he kinda putting the case together himself.

Characters all played by one actor.

He was Andrew Beckett in Philadelphia, Captain John H. Miller in Saving Private Ryan, Jim Lovell in Apollo 13, and Josh Baskin in...

Ah, come on.

Big.

Okay.

Characters all played by one actor.

He was Andrew Beckett in Philadelphia, Captain John H. Miller in Saving Private Ryan, Jim Lovell in, uh, uh, Apollo 13, and Josh Baskin in Big.

Tom Hanks.

definitely not so on today's episode we're going to be going to the 90s to watch or to review the movie philadelphia so for the listeners at home cory do you want to let them know a little synopsis of the movie

yeah so a brief synopsis of philadelphia we've got andrew beckett played by tom hanks is a lawyer in philadelphia and who is a homosexual and has HIV, but has hidden both of those things from his employers.

And when his secrets are exposed, he's very quickly fired by the law firm.

So he decides to sue them and hires another lawyer, Joe Miller, played by Denzel Washington.