Out of the Past (1998)
97 min
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."
- Release date
- January 16, 1998
- Country of origin
- United States
- Music
- Matthias Gohl
- Box office
- $8
Cast
- Stephen Spinella as Michael Wigglesworth
- Gwyneth Paltrow as Sarah Orne Jewett
- Cherry Jones as Annie Adams Fields
- Edward Norton as Henry Gerber
- Leland Gantt as Bayard Rustin
- Annie Fields as Self
- Barbara Gittings as Self
- Peter J. Gomes as Self
- Linda Hunt as Narrator
- Sarah Orne Jewett as Self
Crew
- Jeff Dupre · Director
- Michelle Ferrari · Writer
- Jeff Dupre · Producer
- Matthias Gohl · Composer
- Buddy Squires · Cinematographer
- George O'Donnell · Editor
- Toby Shimin · Editor