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Angels in America Produced by Celia Costas Directed by Mike Nichols Screenplay by Tony Kushner Production Company: HBO Films Premiere Date: December 2003 Length: 352 min. |
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Subjects: AIDS; Mormonism; homosexuality; Judaism; New York City; angels; | |||||||||||||||||
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Summary: From the DVD cover: 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. Annotations: See Mormon Film: Key Films of the Fifth Wave Angels in America is probably the most-viewed film on Mormonism ever created. It is, with its theatrical predecessor, also the most-awarded. It therefore is paramount to understanding the theatrical and cinematic role given to Mormonism in the last three decades. Playwright Tony Kushner apparently controlled the screen version of his play very tightly, investigating a number of different possibilities for release in theaters and on television; presumably the HBO option was taken for its immense audience and ability to retain a great deal of the original material in tact. Among the directors considered was Latter-day Saint Neil LaBute, who declined the project because of the ecclesiastical troubles he was encountering over the television version of his stageplay bash. Mary-Louise Parker and Meryl Streep both won a Golden Globe and an Emmy for their Mormon characters. Dates Spanned in work: 1985 Awards: Five Golden Globes, eleven Emmys, twenty-two other awards, and twenty-seven other nominations Additional details at Internet Movie Database http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0318997/ View BYU Library catalog record http://catalog.lib.byu.edu/uhtbin/ckey-search/3552925 HBLL Call No: DVDLMM 25 Medium: Originated on 35mm, distributed video Cast Members: Al Pacino - Ray Cohn; Meryl Streep - Hannah Pitt/Ethel Rosenberg/Rabbi; Emma Thompson - the Angel of America/Nurse Emily/homeless woman; Mary-Louise Parker - Harper Pitt; Justin Kirk - Prior Walter; Jeffrey Wright - Belize/Mr. Lies; Ben Shenkman - Louis Ironson; Patrick Wilson - Joe Pitt; Music Composed by: Thomas Newman Film Editor: Antonia Van Drimmelen Cinematographer: Stephen Goldblatt Country: USA Language: English Certification: USA - MA (TV); Canada - A Distributor: HBO
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