NEW MOVIE
THE PELICAN BRIEF
NATURAL REASONS FOR KISS
Julia Roberts and Denzel Washington’s characters ended up together in the novel and in an early script.
ONSCREEN KISS AVOIDANCE
At the end of the film, Roberts gives Washington a demure interracial kiss on the cheek and then leaves him.
NEW MOVIE
SIX DEGREES OF SEPARATION
NATURAL REASONS FOR KISS
Will Smith and Anthony Michael Hall play gay men who have a love scene.
ONSCREEN KISS AVOIDANCE
Smith refused to kiss Hall; they fake kiss in a way so the audience can’t see their lips.
NEW MOVIE
PHILADELPHIA
NATURAL REASONS FOR KISS
Tom Hanks plays a homosexual man dying of AIDS, Antonio Banderas is his passionately devoted lover.
ONSCREEN KISS AVOIDANCE
Banderas kisses Hanks on the hand. Their lips never meet.
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