The UK branch of Sony Pictures has revealed that it is planning to bring to Blu-ray director Jonathan Demme's Oscar winning drama Philadelphia (1993), starring Tom Hanks, Denzel Washington, and Roberta Maxwell. The preliminary release date set by the studio is September 30th.
Tom Hanks' Oscar-winning performance as a gay man dying of AIDS in Jonathan Demme's big-budget, all-star movie brings the modern disease to mainstream Hollywood. Hanks plays Andrew Beckett, a lawyer who is fired when his boss discovers that he has AIDS. He then engages the services of homophobic lawyer Joe Miller (Denzel Washington) to take his company to court.