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