Angels in America
Angels in America is an award-winning 2003 HBO miniseries adapted from the play of the same name by Tony Kushner. Kushner adapted his original text for the screen, and Mike Nichols directed. New York City, 1985. Prior Walter (Justin Kirk) announces to his boyfriend Louis Ironson (Ben Shenkman) that he has been diagnosed with AIDS. Unable to cope with this, Louis leaves. This abandonment leaves Prior shattered. At the same time, Roy Cohn (Al Pacino), a powerful lawyer and a right-wing political conservative is diagnosed with AIDS but demands that his doctor say that he has liver cancer as he does not want his homosexuality known in the circles he moves in. Cohn grooms his assistant, the milquetoast Mormon lawyer Joe Pitt (Patrick Wilson), to go to Washington in order to protect him from a disbarment trial. At the same time, Joe's wife Harper (Mary-Louise Parker) has become deeply unhappy and addicted to valium over the fact that Joe does not seem to want her sexually. Joe finally comes out and admits that he is fighting homosexual desires. As he becomes increasingly more ill, Prior receives visitations from a female angel who has sex with him and then implants a holy book inside his body, telling him that he is a prophet and must sound the warning that human progress be stopped. And as Cohn falls ill in hospital, the ghost of the Communist spy Ethel Rosenberg (Meryl Streep), whom he helped convict and execute, comes to gloat at his nearing death.
Genre: Drama, Mini-Series
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