History YMMV / Milk

* KarmaHoudini: Debatable with Dan White. He received a very light sentence for what was obviously first degree murder. But he did commit suicide just two years after being released from prison
** Averted with Anita Bryant. The LGBTQ+ community and progressives rallied against her so much that she lost all of her endorsements and became a national joke. Shortly after Prop 6 failed she divorced her husband which caused other MoralGuardians to shun her. She later filed for bankruptcy twice and quietly slipped out of public life. Finally in 2021 her Granddaughter [[https://www.them.us/story/anita-bryant-lesbian-granddaughter came out as gay]] and married a woman.

* DiagnosedByTheAudience: Jack. He's sweet-natured but unbalanced, showing some signs of attachment and abandonment issues and possibly PTSD as a result of his father beating him upon Jack's coming out as gay.

** The spontaneous [[spoiler:candlelight procession]] at the end, letting it be known that, even after his murder, [[spoiler:Harvey]]'s legacy lives on.

* AmbiguousDisorder: Jack. He's sweet-natured but unbalanced, showing some signs of attachment and abandonment issues and possibly PTSD as a result of his father beating him upon Jack's coming out as gay.

* CriticalResearchFailure: The epilogue repeats the UrbanLegend that Dan White received a mild sentence for shooting Moscone and Milk, because his lawyers argued that he had been mentally impaired due to excessive consumption of Twinkies and other junk foods (the origin of the phrase "Twinkie defence"). [[http://www.snopes.com/legal/twinkie.asp The real argument was that White was suffering from mental problems at the time of the murders, and that one of the signs of this was an increased consumption of junk food.]]

* FoeYay: Harvey seems to believe Dan White is a closeted homosexual, but his friends really doubt it.

* CriticalResearchFailure: The epilogue repeats the UrbanLegend that [[spoiler: Dan White received a mild sentence for shooting Moscone and Milk, because his lawyers argued that he had been mentally impaired due to excessive consumption of Twinkies and other junk foods (the origin of the phrase "Twinkie defence"). [[http://www.snopes.com/legal/twinkie.asp The real argument was that White was suffering from mental problems at the time of the crime and that one of the symptoms of this was an increased consumption of junk food.]]]]

** Harvey's LittleNo when [[spoiler:Dan pulls a gun on him]]. True to his character, he sounds more disappointed than scared.

* TearJerker: Many scenes but especially [[spoiler: the spontaneous candlelight procession at the end.]]
** Harvey receives a call from a distraught teenager in Minnesota who is contemplating suicide because his parents are sending him to a hospital "to be fixed" and the teenager reveals that he is disabled and using a wheelchair, so running off to the nearest big city is practically impossible.

* TearJerker: Many scenes but especially [[spoiler: the spontaneous candlelight procession at the end.]]

* EnsembleDarkHorse: Creator/JoshBrolin was given unanimous praise for his role as Dan White, with many critics saying he could have supported an entire movie by himself. In fact, if it wasn't for [[Film/TheDarkKnight that]] [[SelfDemonstrating/TheJoker OTHER]] [[HeathLedger guy]], he probably would've won the Best Supporting Actor Oscar hands-down.

* CriticalResearchFailure: The epilogue repeats the UrbanLegend that [[spoiler: Dan White received a mild sentence for shooting Moscone and Milk, because his lawyers argued that he had been mentally impaired due to excessive consumption of Twinkies (the origin of the phrase "Twinkie defence"). [[http://www.snopes.com/legal/twinkie.asp The real argument was that White was suffering from mental problems at the time of the crime and that one of the symptoms of this was an increased consumption of junk food.]]]]

* CriticalResearchFailure: The epilogue repeats the UrbanLegend that [[spoiler: Dan White's defence successfully argued that White's judgement had been impaired when he shot Moscone and Milk due to excessive consumption of Twinkies (origin of the phrase "Twinkie defence"). [[http://www.snopes.com/legal/twinkie.asp The real argument was that White was suffering from depression, and that one of the symptoms was the previously health-concious White's conversion to a junkfood-laden diet.]]]]

* CriticalResearchFailure: The epilogue repeats the UrbanLegend that [[spoiler: Dan White's defence successfully argued that White's judgement had been impaired when he shot Moscone and Milk due to depression brought on by excessive consumption of Twinkies (origin of the phrase "Twinkie defence"). [[http://www.snopes.com/legal/twinkie.asp The real argument was that one of the symptoms of the depression was the previously health-concious White's conversion to a junkfood-laden diet.]]]]

* CriticalResearchFailure: The epilogue repeats the UrbanLegend that [[spoiler: Dan White's defence successfully argued that White's judgement had been impaired when he shot Moscone and Milk due to excessive consumption of Twinkies (origin of the phrase "Twinkie defence"). [[http://www.snopes.com/legal/twinkie.asp The real argument was that one of the symptoms of the depression was the previously health-concious White's conversion to a junkfood-laden diet.]]]]

* CriticalResearchFailure: The epilogue repeats the UrbanLegend that [[spoiler: Dan White's defence successfully argued that White's judgement had been impaired when he shot Moscone and Milk due to excessive consumption of Twinkies (origin of the phrase "Twinkie defence"). [[http://www.snopes.com/legal/twinkie.asp The real argument was that White's judgement was impaired due to a severe depression, one of the symptoms of which was the previously health-concious White's conversion to a junkfood-laden diet.]]]]

* EnsembleDarkHorse: Josh Brolin was given unanimous praise for his role as Dan White, with many critics saying he could have supported an entire movie by himself. In fact, if it wasn't for [[Film/TheDarkKnight that]] [[SelfDemonstrating/TheJoker OTHER]] [[HeathLedger guy]], he probably would've won the Best Supporting Actor Oscar hands-down.

* EnsembleDarkhorse: Josh Brolin was given unanimous praise for his role as Dan White, with many critics saying he could have supported an entire movie by himself. In fact, if it wasn't for [[Film/TheDarkKnight that]] [[TheJoker OTHER]] [[HeathLedger guy]], he probably would've won the Best Supporting Actor Oscar hands-down.

* EnsembleDarkhorse: Josh Brolin was given unanimous praise for his role as Dan White, with many critics saying he could have supported an entire movie by himself. In fact, if it wasn't for [[TheDarkKnight that]] [[TheJoker OTHER]] [[HeathLedger guy]], he probably would've won the Best Supporting Actor Oscar hands-down.
* TearJerker: Many scenes but especially [[spoiler: the spontaneous candlelight procession at the end.]]