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| HBO (2003) | |||||
| TV Series / Drama, Queer Themes/Interest | |||||
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| Al Pacino | Roy Cohn | |
| Meryl Streep | The Rabbi / Hannah Pitt / Ethel Rosenberg | |
| Patrick Wilson | Joe Pitt | |
| Mary-Louise Parker | Harper Pitt | |
| Emma Thompson | The Angel of America / Nurse Emily / Homeles | |
| Justin Kirk | Prior Walter / The Man in the Park | |
| Jeffrey Wright | Belize / Mr. Lies / The Angel Antartica | |
| Ben Shenkman | Louis Ironson / The Angel Europa | |
| James Cromwell | Henry | |
| Michael Gambon | Prior Walter Ancestor #1 | |
| Simon Callow | Prior Walter Ancestor #2 | |
| Jeffrey Wright | Mr. Lies | |
| Ben Shenkman | Louis Ironson | |
| Justin Kirk | Prior Walter | |
| Brian Markinson | Martin Heller | |
| James Cromwell | Roy's Doctor | |
| Florence Kastriner | Louis' Mother | |
| Melissa Wilder | Louis's Sister | |
| Howard Pinhasik | Louis' Father | |
| Fatima Da Silva | Cousin Doris | |
| Meryl Streep | The Rabbi | |
| David Zayas | Super | |
| Robin Weigert | Mormon Mother | |
| Lisa LeGuillou | Nurse | |
| Kevin 'Flotilla DeBarge' Joseph | Singer in Church | |
| Brian Dougherty | Mennonite Choir Members | |
| Mary Esbjornson | Mennonite Choir Members | |
| Barbara Fusco | Mennonite Choir Members | |
| Serafina Martino | Mennonite Choir Members | |
| Sterling Brown | Orderly | |
| Steven Edward Moore | Mennonite Choir Members | |
| Shawn Bartels | Mennonite Choir Members |
| Director/Choreographer |
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| Producer | Celia Costas
Cary Brokaw Celia D. Costas Michael Haley |
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| Writer/Composer |
Tony Kushner
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| Cinematography |
Stephen Goldblatt
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| Music |
Thomas Newman
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Playwright Tony Kushner adapts his political epic about the AIDS crisis during the mid-eighties, around a group of separate but connected individuals. |
| 55 mins 12/7/2003 1. Millennium Approaches - Bad News | ||
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Prior Walter is diagnosed with AIDS that changes his life and he must deal with such new obstacle. Moreover, his partner abandoned him. He has also increasing hallucinations and Mormon's mother comes to New York in order to save her son's marriage. Meanwhile, Roy Cohn checks into the hospital.
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| 55 mins 12/7/2003 2. Millennium Approaches - In Vitro | ||
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Louis abandons a hospitalized Prior; Joe and Roy confide in each other over drinks. Later, Prior hears voices from his hospital bed while Louis solicits sex from strangers, and Joe makes a drunken confession to his mother.
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| 55 mins 12/7/2003 3. Millennium Approaches - The Messenger | ||
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Prior returns home and is visited by a pair of spectral namesake ancestors who herald the arrival of the messenger; a tussle with Joe leaves Roy with the ghost of Ethel Rosenberg. Later, Joe and Louis hook up in Central Park while Prior meets the angelic messenger.
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| 55 mins 12/14/2003 4. Perestroika - Stop Moving | ||
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The story continues with Prior finally confronting the visions, Cohn desperately trying to manipulate the system to his benefit - all the while haunted by one of his victims, and Harper attempting to regain control of her life.
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| 55 mins 12/14/2003 5. Perestroika - Beyond Nelly | ||
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Louis arranges a meeting with Prior; Joe visits Roy in the hospital and gets an unwelcome father's blessing; Prior drags Belize to the courthouse for a surprise meeting with the clerk and later strikes up a friendship with Hannah. High on morphine, Roy paints a different picture of heaven.
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| 55 mins 12/14/2003 6. Perestroika - Heaven, I'm in Heaven | ||
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A fight with Joe leaves Louis badly scarred; Roy plays a final practical joke on Ethel; Prior wrestles the Angel and then addresses a review board in Heaven; Harper heads out West; Prior, outliving his diagnosis, pays a visit to his favorite angel and vows to keep living--free of secrets.
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