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Angels in America
Title
Angels in America [videorecording] / HBO Films presents an Avenue Pictures production, a Mike Nichols film ; produced by Celia Costas ; screenplay by Tony Kushner ; directed by Mike Nichols.
ISBN
0783129505
Published
New York, NY : HBO Video, c2004.
Physical Description
2 videodiscs (ca. 352 min.) : sd., col. w/b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Notes
Originally broadcast by HBO in 2003.
Based on the play by Tony Kushner.
Director of photography, Stephen Goldblatt ; editors, John Bloom, Antonia Van Drimmelen ; music, Thomas Newman ; costume designer, Stuart Wurtzel ; visual effects supervisor, Richard Edlund.
Dialogue in English with optional soundtracks in French or Spanish and optional subtitles in English and Spanish; closed-captioned in English for the hearing impaired.
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.
Variant and related titles
Millenium approaches.
Perestroika.
Format
Images / Video & Film
Language
English; French; Spanish
Added to Catalog
September 15, 2004
Credits
Director of photography, Stephen Goldblatt ; editors, John Bloom, Antonia Van Drimmelen ; music, Thomas Newman ; costume designer, Stuart Wurtzel ; visual effects supervisor, Richard Edlund.
Cast
Al Pacino, Meryl Streep, Emma Thompson, Mary-Louise Parker, Jeffrey Wright, Justine Kirk, Ben Shenkman, Patrick Wilson, Brian Markinson, James Cromwell.
System details note
DVD, Region 1, widescreen (1.78:1) presentation; Dolby Digital 5.1 surround, Dolby Digital 2.0 surround.
Audience
Not rated.
Contents
pt. 1. Millenium approaches
pt. 2. Perestroika.
Videorecording number
92299 HBO Video
Subjects
Subjects (Local Yale)
Genre/Form
Television mini-series.
Films for the hearing impaired.
Also listed under
HBO Films.
Avenue Pictures.
HBO Video (Firm)
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