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Juno (2007)

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We were lost in here. I knew we needed to escape but she wouldn’t accept it. She had locked something away, something deep inside. The truth that she had once known but she chose to forget. She couldn’t break free. So I decided to search for it. Going deep into the recess of her mind and found that secret place. I broke in and I planted an idea. A simple idea that I knew would change everything. That her world wasn’t real. That death was the only escape.

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It's been a breathtaking year for gay rights. Now, in their new movie Freeheld, Julianne Moore and Ellen Page pay a very personal tribute to two women who paved the way.

Seven years ago, while filming the movie Whip It, Ellen Page was in a Detroit hotel room with her then girlfriend when she received an email that would galvanize her fight for gay rights. “I was super closeted at the time,” says Page, 28. But the message contained a link to the trailer for Freeheld, a short documentary about New Jersey police lieutenant Laurel Hester, who, while dying of lung cancer, fought to pass on her pension benefits to her domestic partner, Stacie Andree, and won her case just weeks before her death, in 2006. Would Page be interested in playing Andree in a feature film based on the story, its producers wanted to know? After watching three minutes, Page—an Oscar nominee that year for Juno—was in tears. “I was moved, so unbelievably moved,” she says. “I wanted to be involved.”

Six years later, Julianne Moore, approached to play Hester, had the same reaction: “I just sat there,” she says, “and wept.”

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“I hate how box office failures are blamed on an actress, yet I don’t see a box office failure blamed on men. A lot of the time in films, men get roles where they create their own destiny and women are just tools, supporters for that. I guess it’s because we live in a patriarchal society, where feminism is a dirty word.”