What ?That?s Entertainment? did for movie musicals, The Celluloid Closet, does for Hollywood homosexuality, as this exuberant, eye-opening documentary serves up a dazzling, hundred-year history of the role of gay men and women on the silver screen.

Lily Tomlin narrates as Oscar-winning moviemaker Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman assembles fabulous footage from 120 films showing the changing face of cinema sexuality, from cruel stereotypes, to covert love to the activist triumphs of the 1990s. Tom Hanks, Susan Sarandon, hoopi Goldberg, Tony Curtis, Harvey Feinstein and Gore Vidal are just a few of the many actors, writers and commentators who provide funny and insightful anecdotes.