Year			1995
Genre			Documentary
Length			1:42
Director			Rob Epstein Jeffrey Friedman
Company			Alliance Atlantis
Starring			Lily Tomlin Antonio Banderas Joseph Breen Susie Bright Quentin Crisp Mart Crowley Show more... Lily Tomlin Antonio Banderas Joseph Breen Susie Bright Quentin Crisp Mart Crowley Tony Curtis Richard Dyer Antonio Fargas Harvey Fierstein Whoopi Goldberg Farley Granger Harry Hamlin Tom Hanks Susan Sarandon Shirley MacLaine Sharon Stone

THE CELLULOID CLOSET is the film version of author Vito Russo's landmark book by the same name. Filmmakers Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman, who have previously won an Academy Award for Common Threads: Stories From The Quilt, bring this book to life. THE CELLULOID CLOSET explodes sexual myths and explores how our attitudes about homosexuality and sex roles have evolved through the century. With clips from over 100 Hollywood movies and interviews with many of the filmmakers and actors who created them (including Tom Hanks, Shirley MacLaine, Susan Sarandon, Whoopi Goldberg, Tony Curtis, and Gore Vidal), THE CELLULOID CLOSET is an epic story -- by turns surprising, hilarious, and disturbing.