| Description |
2 videodiscs (ca. 352 min.) : sd., col. w/b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in. |
| System Details |
DVD, Region 1, widescreen (1.78:1) presentation; Dolby Digital 5.1 surround, Dolby Digital 2.0 surround. |
| Language |
English or Spanish dialogue, optional French or Spanish subtitles; closed-captioned. |
| Cast |
Al Pacino, Meryl Streep, Emma Thompson, Mary-Louise Parker, Jeffrey Wright, Justine Kirk, Ben Shenkman, Patrick Wilson, Brian Markinson, James Cromwell. |
| Credits |
Director of photography, Stephen Goldblatt ; editors, John Bloom, Antonia Van Drimmelen ; music, Thomas Newman ; costume designer, Stuart Wurtzel ; visual effects supervisor, Richard Edlund. |
| Note |
Originally broadcast by HBO in 2003. |
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Based on the play by Tony Kushner. |
| Audience |
Not rated. |
| 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. |
| Contents |
pt. 1. Millennium approaches -- pt. 2. Perestroika. |
| Subject |
Angels -- Drama.
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AIDS (Disease) -- United States -- Drama.
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Gay men -- United States -- Drama.
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Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome -- Fictional Works. |
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Homosexuality, Male -- Fictional Works. |
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Religion -- Fictional Works. |
| Genre/Form |
Fantasy television programs.
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Television mini-series.
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Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
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Fantasy television programs.
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Television movies.
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Fantasy -- Television mini-series.
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| Added Author |
Nichols, Mike.
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Pacino, Al, 1940-
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Streep, Meryl.
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Thompson, Emma.
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Parker, Mary-Louise.
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Wright, Jeffrey.
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Kirk, Justin.
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Shenkman, Ben.
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Wilson, Patrick, 1973-
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Cromwell, James.
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Goldblatt, Stephen, 1945-
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Bloom, John, 1935-
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Newman, Thomas, 1955-
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Roth, Ann, 1931-
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Wurtzel, Stuart.
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Edlund, Richard, 1940-
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Kushner, Tony.
Angels in America (1993)
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HBO Films.
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Avenue Pictures.
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HBO Video (Firm)
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| Added Title |
Millenium approaches.
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Perestroika.
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| ISBN |
0783129505 |
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9780783129501 |
| Standard No. |
026359229923 |
| Music No. |
92299 HBO Video |
| Standard No. |
NLGGC 270188223 |
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NZ1 9017641 |
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AU@ 000026267419 |
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AU@ 000026315699 |
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NZ1 12163104 |
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