| Angels In America | |||||
| HBO (2003) | |||||
| TV Series / Drama, Fantasie | |||||
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| Al Pacino | Roy Cohn | |
| Meryl Streep | The Rabbi / Hannah Pitt / Ethel Rosenberg / Th | |
| Emma Thompson | The Angel of America / Nurse Emily / Homeles | |
| Mary-Louise Parker | Harper Pitt | |
| Jeffrey Wright | Belize / Mr. Lies / The Angel Antartica | |
| Justin Kirk | Prior Walter / The Man in the Park | |
| Ben Shenkman | Louis Ironson / The Angel Europa | |
| Patrick Wilson | Joe Pitt | |
| James Cromwell | Henry | |
| Michael Gambon | Prior Walter Ancestor #1 |
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| Producent | Celia Costas
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| Schrijver | Tony Kushner
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Verfilming van een Pulitzerprijs bekroonde toneelstuk van Tony Kushner. Het is 1985, Ronald Reagan is president en AIDS treft de homoseksuele gemeenschap. Prior Walton vertelt zijn geliefde Lou, waar hij al 4 jaar mee samen is, dat hij ziek is. Lou verlaat Prior. Echter hoe zieker en eenzamer Prior wordt, hoe meer spijt Lou krijgt van zijn beslissing. Tijdens een nacht vol hallucinaties krijgt Prior bezoek van een engel die hem uitnodigt een profeet van de dood te worden. Ergens verderop in Manhattan wordt Joe Pitt, een advocaat die zowel mormoon als republikein is, door de rechtse Roy Cohn gedwongen een baan te nemen bij het ministerie van justitie. Zowel Pitt als Cohn hebben geheimen die ze liever niet prijsgeven, Pitt vanwege schaamte en het religieuze oogpunt Cohn vanwege het behouden van zijn macht. |
| Seen it: Yes 55 min. 7/12/2003 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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| Seen it: Yes 55 min. 7/12/2003 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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| Seen it: Yes 55 min. 7/12/2003 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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| Seen it: Yes 55 min. 14/12/2003 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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| Seen it: Yes 55 min. 14/12/2003 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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| Seen it: Yes 55 min. 14/12/2003 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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