In 1995, Kelli Peterson started a gay and straight club at her Salt Lake City high school. The story of her ensuing battle with school authorities in interspersed with looks back at the diary of Michael Wigglesworth, a 17th-century Puritan cleric, at the 30-year love affair of Sarah Orne Jewett and Annie Adams Fields, at Henry Gerber's attempt after World War I to establish a gay-rights organization, at Bayard Rustin's role in the civil rights movement, and at Barbara Gittings' taking on of the American Psychiatric Association's position that homosexuality is illness. One person comments, "To create a place for ourselves in the present, we have to find ourselves in the past."
Credits
Out of the Past Cast
| Name |
Character |
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Gwyneth Paltrow
She was 25, now 52 years old
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as Sarah Orne Jewett (voice) |
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Edward Norton
He was 28, now 55 years old
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as Henry Gerber (voice) |
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Linda Hunt
She was 53, now 79 years old
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as Narrator |
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Cherry Jones
She was 41, now 68 years old
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as Annie Adams Fields |
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Stephen Spinella
He was 41, now 68 years old
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as Michael Wigglesworth |
Out of the Past Crew
| Name |
Department |
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Matthias Gohl as Original Music Composer. He was 42 (now 68) years old
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Sound |
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Jeff Dupre as Director. |
Directing |
