Angels in America

Item Number

PN1992.8.F5

Author/Artist/Editor

Tony Kushner, Mike Nichols

Type

DVD

Date

2004

Press/Publisher

HBO

Language

English

Description

Set in 1985, this miniseries, based on Tony Kushner's plays of the same name, 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.

Keywords

Film, HBO, Angels in America

ISSN/ISBN

0-7831-2950-5

Availability

Available

OCLC

54435745