Angels in America
2003 Directed by Mike Nichols
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Playwright Tony Kushner adapts his political epic about the AIDS crisis during the mid-eighties, around a group of separate but connected individuals.
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HBO has given us some remarkable films and this 2003 adaptation of Tony Kushner's Pulitizer-prize and Tony-award winning two-part play is one of the best (I speak with some authority as I have read the actual play). You may be aware of the setting. It's 1984-ish and the AIDS crisis is at its height. Kushner gives us four homosexual men to follow through a relatively short time period. One is dying of AIDS, on is his boyfriend who leaves him when he finds out, one is a conservative married Mormon closet case (whose wife is a hallucinating Valium addict), and one appears as a nurse (though he has several roles, especially in the Mormon woman's hallucinations). They are marvelously played…
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Look, it's here, even though it's a mini series!
I can't even put into words how I feel about this series.
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one of the best things i've ever seen so far!
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Well made...I suppose...with a run on ending. Let's drive the point home shall we...and crash into the garage and run over the children too. Why is every Mormon in cinema a closet homosexual? Way too preachy and self important.
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This review reportedly contains spoilers. I can handle the truth.
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HBO has given us some remarkable films and this 2003 adaptation of Tony Kushner's Pulitizer-prize and Tony-award winning two-part play is one of the best (I speak with some authority as I have read the actual play). You may be aware of the setting. It's 1984-ish and the AIDS crisis is at its height. Kushner gives us four homosexual men to follow through a relatively short time period. One is dying of AIDS, on is his boyfriend who leaves him when he finds out, one is a conservative married Mormon closet case (whose wife is a hallucinating Valium addict), and one appears as a nurse (though he has several roles, especially in the Mormon woman's hallucinations). They are marvelously played…
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Well, I've just watched 3/6 parts, but I will watch the whole miniseries. Just not now.
Since I'm watching this while I'm sick, it's a bit hard to follow the story even though I know what it's basically about. I also get easily distracted, so it may have been a lot I haven't picked up yet. Think I'll re-watch it later.
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Though it was made for HBO, I still consider this to be a great work of cinema. It's not some simple filming of a stage production. It takes full advantage of all those wonderful things that only cinema can do, and uses them to transport us back to the fearful 1980s. A time when our own President refused to acknowledge a plague that was already laying waste to countless thousands. Not exactly the cheeriest of time periods right? Yet out of this horror, talented artists were able to produce a staggeringly hopeful work. I highly recommend you set aside the 6 hours and take this journey. You won't regret it.