This summer HBO is making a big play for LGBT kudos with The Normal Heart and The Case Against 8. The latter has already received plenty of praise, including winning the Best Documentary Direction prize at Sundance.
It’s film festival success has ensured it will get a limited cinemas release in the US on June 6th, before it debuts on HBO on June 23rd. Ahead of that comes the trailer.
The film goes deep inside the court cases that sought to overturn California’s ban on same-sex marriage after the ballot measure Proposition 8 was enacted – where voters overturned a law allowing gay people to marry and attempted to enshrine opposite sex marriage in the State’s constitution. The film follows the unlikely team that took the first federal marriage equality lawsuit to the US Supreme Court, which eventually resulted in equal marriage returning to California.
The film is directed by Ben Cotner and Ryan White.
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