Angels in America

Resource Information

The work Angels in America represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Bowdoin College Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Moving Image, Visual Materials.

Label

Angels in America

Statement of responsibility

HBO Films presents an Avenue Pictures production, a Mike Nichols film ; produced by Celia Costas ; screenplay by Tony Kushner ; directed by Mike Nichols

Contributor

• Streep, Meryl
• Streep, Meryl
• Thompson, Emma
• Wright, Jeffrey
• Wright, Jeffrey
• Wright, Jeffrey
• Thompson, Emma
• Avenue Pictures
• Avenue Pictures
• HBO Films
• HBO Films
• HBO Video (Firm)
• HBO Video (Firm)
• Costas, Celia
• Costas, Celia
• Kirk, Justin
• Kirk, Justin
• Kushner, Tony
• Kushner, Tony
• Newman, Thomas, 1955-
• Newman, Thomas, 1955-
• Nichols, Mike
• Nichols, Mike
• Pacino, Al, 1940-
• Pacino, Al, 1940-
• Parker, Mary-Louise
• Parker, Mary-Louise

Subject

• Gay men -- United States -- Drama
• Television mini-series
• Television mini-series
• Video recordings
• Video recordings
• Videorecording
• Drama
• AIDS (Disease) -- United States -- Drama
• Drama
• Films for the hearing impaired
• Films for the hearing impaired
• Gay men -- United States -- Drama
• AIDS (Disease) -- United States -- Drama
• Angels -- Drama
• Angels -- Drama

Genre

• Drama
• Films for the hearing impaired
• Television mini-series
• Video recordings

Language

• eng
• fre
• spa
• eng
• eng

Summary

Set in 1985. 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

Related

• Perestroika
• Millenium approaches

Awards note

Winner of 5 Golden Globe Awards

Cataloging source

TEFMT

Characteristic

videorecording

Credits note

Director of photography, Stephen Goldblatt ; editors, John Bloom, Antonia Van Drimmelen ; music, Thomas Newman ; costume designer, Stuart Wurtzel ; visual effects supervisor, Richard Edlund

Language note

English or Spanish dialogue, optional French or Spanish subtitles; closed-captioned

PerformerNote

Al Pacino, Meryl Streep, Emma Thompson, Mary-Louise Parker, Jeffrey Wright, Justine Kirk, Ben Shenkman, Patrick Wilson, Brian Markinson, James Cromwell

Runtime

352

Technique

live action