Out of the Past
1998, English. Directed by Jeff Dupre.
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."
- Runtime
- 1h 37m
- Post-credits
- None listed
- Language
- English
- Rated
- R
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- Released
- 31 July 1998
- Country
- United States of America
- Written by
- Michelle Ferrari
- Box office
- $8
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Out of the Past runs 97 minutes (1h 37m).
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Out of the Past is rated R in India. Check the rating guidance before watching with young children.
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Out of the Past isn’t streaming on any OTT platform in India yet; it released on 31 July 1998. (Checked 13 November 2026.)
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Who directed Out of the Past?
Out of the Past (1998) was directed by Jeff Dupre and stars Stephen Spinella, Gwyneth Paltrow, Cherry Jones.