Angels in America, HBO Films presents an Avenue Pictures production, a Mike Nichols film ; produced by Celia Costas ; screenplay by Tony Kushner ; directed by Mike Nichols
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Label
Angels in America, HBO Films presents an Avenue Pictures production, a Mike Nichols film ; produced by Celia Costas ; screenplay by Tony Kushner ; directed by Mike Nichols
Language
eng
Characteristic
videorecording
Intended audience
Not rated
Main title
Angels in America
Medium
videorecording
Oclc number
54435745835372
Responsibility statement
HBO Films presents an Avenue Pictures production, a Mike Nichols film ; produced by Celia Costas ; screenplay by Tony Kushner ; directed by Mike Nichols
Runtime
352
Summary
Set in 1985. Revolves around two very different men with AIDS, one fictional, one fictionalized. Roy Cohn personifies all the hypocrisy, delusion and callousness of the official response to the plague. Nothing shakes Roy's lack of empathy: even on his death bed, he's fighting with his gay nurse and taunting the woman he helped put to death, Ethel Rosenberg. The other patient is Prior Walter, who is visited by an angel and deserted by his self-pitying lover, Louis. Louis moves on to a relationship with Joe Pitt, a Mormon lawyer whose closeted homosexuality drives his wife to delusions and brings his mother to New York
Table Of Contents
pt. 1. Millennium approaches -- pt. 2. Perestroika
Target audience
general
Technique
live action
Contributor
- Streep, Meryl
- Avenue Pictures
- Kushner, Tony
- Newman, Thomas, 1955-
- Wilson, Patrick, 1973-
- Wright, Jeffrey., Jeffrey Charles, 1965-
- Wurtzel, Stuart
- Nichols, Mike
- HBO Video (Firm)
- Bloom, John, 1935-
- Edlund, Richard, 1940-
- Parker, Mary-Louise
- Gambon, Michael
- Costas, Celia
- Cromwell, James
- Shenkman, Ben
- Pacino, Al, 1940-
- Kirk, Justin
- HBO Films
- Roth, Ann, 1931-
- Goldblatt, Stephen, 1945-
- Thompson, Emma
Subject
- Ángeles -- Teatro
- AIDS (Disease) -- United States -- Drama
- Angels -- Drama
- Gay men -- United States -- Drama
- AIDS (Disease) + Fictional works
- Male homosexuality + Fictional works
- Sexual orientation -- Drama
- Kushner, Tony -- Television adaptations
- Cohn, Roy M. -- Drama
- Religion + Fictional works
- AIDS (Disease) + Patients -- Drama
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Outgoing Resources
- Classification2
- Contributor22
- Streep, Meryl
- Avenue Pictures
- Kushner, Tony
- Newman, Thomas, 1955-
- Wilson, Patrick, 1973-
- Wright, Jeffrey., Jeffrey Charles, 1965-
- Wurtzel, Stuart
- Nichols, Mike
- HBO Video (Firm)
- Bloom, John, 1935-
- Edlund, Richard, 1940-
- Parker, Mary-Louise
- Gambon, Michael
- Costas, Celia
- Cromwell, James
- Shenkman, Ben
- Pacino, Al, 1940-
- Kirk, Justin
- HBO Films
- Roth, Ann, 1931-
- Goldblatt, Stephen, 1945-
- Thompson, Emma
- Subject11
- Ángeles -- Teatro
- AIDS (Disease) -- United States -- Drama
- Angels -- Drama
- Gay men -- United States -- Drama
- AIDS (Disease) + Fictional works
- Male homosexuality + Fictional works
- Sexual orientation -- Drama
- Kushner, Tony -- Television adaptations
- Cohn, Roy M. -- Drama
- Religion + Fictional works
- AIDS (Disease) + Patients -- Drama
- resource.hasPart2
- Is Based On1
- Mapped to2