Milk (film) million. "Milk" was released on DVD and Blu-ray on March 10, 2009. The DVD comes with deleted scenes and three featurettes: "Remembering Harvey", "Hollywood Comes to San Francisco", and "Marching for Equality". As of August 2009, the DVD release of the film has sold an estimated 600,413 units, resulting in $11.3 million in revenue. On Rotten Tomatoes the film has an approval rating of 94% based on 236 reviews, with an average rating of 8/10. The website's critical consensus reads, "Anchored by Sean Penn's powerhouse performance, "Milk" is a triumphant account of America's first openly gay man elected to public
Gay-for-pay the role of the real-life gay rights activist-political leader Harvey Milk). In film and TV, "pinkface" is the use of straight actors to play LGB roles or characters. Anna King of "Time Out" likens "pinkface" to blackface. The LGB community raised concerns about the film "Brüno", in which a straight actor (Sacha Baron Cohen) plays the role of a gay man to "...mak[e] fun of the queer community". Dennis Lim states that the depictions of gays in mainstream film typically include the "gay joke" (in which LGB people are depicted to create humor); depicting gay men pejoratively as a "daisy,