Out of the Past 25 years old

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
Gwyneth Paltrow She was 25, now 51 years old as Sarah Orne Jewett (voice)
Edward Norton He was 28, now 54 years old as Henry Gerber (voice)
Linda Hunt She was 53, now 78 years old as Narrator
Cherry Jones She was 41, now 67 years old as Annie Adams Fields
Stephen Spinella He was 41, now 67 years old as Michael Wigglesworth

Out of the Past Crew

Name Department
Matthias Gohl as Original Music Composer. He was 42 (now 68) years old Sound
Jeff Dupre as Director. Directing
Out of the Past poster
Out of the Past (25 years)

  • Release day: Friday, July 31, 1998
  • Runtime: 97 minutes
  • Revenue: 8.00