Movie: Milk (2008)
- Director: Gus Van Sant
- Release Date: 22 December 2008 (Israel)
- Run Time: 128 min
- Country: USA
- Genre: Biography , Drama
- MPAA: Rated R for language, some sexual content and brief violence.
Tagline: His life changed history. His courage changed lives.
Trivia: Proposition 6 was defeated in part due to the intervention of former California Governor, but not yet President, Ronald Reagan. Reagan spoke out publicly against the initiative and turned a great deal of public opinion against it. This is also viewed as the origin of the Log Cabin Republicans.
Goofs: Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): In one of the first scenes that Sean Penn and Diego Luna have together, Sean calls Diego, "Diego" instead of his character name "Jack".
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