Philadelphia stars Academy Award winners Tom Hanks (Best Actor in a Leading Role, 1994, Forrest Gump, and Best Actor, 1993, Philadelphia) and Denzel Washington (Best Actor in a Leading Role, 2002, Training Day; Best Actor in a Supporting Role, 1990, Glory) as two competing lawyers who join forces to sue a prestigious law firm for AIDS discrimination. As their unlikely friendship develops, their courage overcomes the prejudice and corruption of their powerful adversaries.

Such a great story about overcoming personal prejudices and seeing past your initial beliefs to create humility in yourself for another. Denzel Washington, who originally disagrees with the gay lifestyle and is worried and misinformed about aids, plays perfectly a man overcoming his fears (and ingrained beliefs) to help Tom Hanks' character against his ex-employer. This story is definitely an emotional one as well as you go through the stages of aids with Hanks subsequently getting worse and worse off as time goes by.