Angels in America
(DVD) 

Originally broadcast by HBO in 2003.

Based on the play by Tony Kushner.

Director of photography, Stephen Goldblatt ; editors, John Bloom, Antonia Van Drimmelen ; music, Thomas Newman ; costume designer, Ann Roth ; production designer, Stuart Wurtzel ; visual effects supervisor, Richard Edlund ; executive producers, Michael Haley, Cary Brokaw, Mike Nichols.

Al Pacino, Meryl Streep, Emma Thompson, Mary-Louise Parker, Jeffrey Wright, Justin Kirk, Ben Shenkman, Patrick Wilson, Brian Markinson, James Cromwell, Michael Gambon ; Robin Weigert.

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.

Not rated.

Closed captioned in English.

DVD; NTSC format, region 1; Dolby Digital 5.1 surround, Dolby Digital 2.0 surround; widescreen (1.78:1) presentation.

Home use only.

Dialogue in English with optional soundtracks in French or Spanish and optional subtitles in English and Spanish.

Golden Globes, 2004: Best Mini Series; Best Actor in a Miniseries or a Motion Picture Made for Television (Pacino); Best Actress in a Miniseries or a Motion Picture Made for Television (Streep); Best Supporting Actor in a Series, Miniseries or Motion Picture Made for Television (Wright); Best Supporting Actress in a Series, Miniseries or Motion Picture Made for Television (Parker).