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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 |
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| Producer | Celia Costas
Cary Brokaw Celia D. Costas |
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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 adapted to film, released in 2003, his 1991 political play about the AIDS crisis during the mid-eighties, around a group of separate but connected individuals. God has abandoned Heaven. It's 1985: the Reagans are in the White House and Death swings the scythe of AIDS. In Manhattan, Prior Walter tells Lou, his lover of four years, he's ill; Lou bolts. As disease and loneliness ravage Prior, guilt invades Lou. Joe Pitt, an attorney who is Mormon and Republican, is pushed by right-wing fixer Roy Cohn toward a job at the Justice Department. Both Pitt and Cohn are in the closet: Pitt out of shame and religious turmoil, Cohn to preserve his power and access. Pitt's wife Harper is strung out on Valium, aching to escape a sexless marriage. An angel invites Prior to be a prophet in death. Pitt's mother and Belize, a close friend, help Prior choose. Written by |
| Disc 01 | ||
| 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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| Disc 02 | ||
| 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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