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
Milk (film) through for different reasons, until 2007. Much of "Milk" was filmed on Castro Street and other locations in San Francisco, including Milk's former storefront, Castro Camera. "Milk" begins on Harvey Milk's 40th birthday (in 1970), when he was living in New York City and had not yet settled in San Francisco. It chronicles his foray into city politics, and the various battles he waged in the Castro neighborhood as well as throughout the city, and political campaigns to limit the rights of gay people in 1977 and 1978 run by Anita Bryant and John Briggs. His romantic and political relationships