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Angels in America (2003)

★ 7.6 / 10267 ratingsTV show

DramaSci-Fi & Fantasy

Popularity 9.5

Overview

God has abandoned Heaven. It's 1985: the Reagans are in the White House and Death swings the scythe of AIDS. In Manhattan, Prior Walter tells Louis, his lover of four years, he's ill; Louis leaves but as disease and loneliness ravage Prior, guilt invades Louis. Joe Pitt, a Mormon Republican attorney, is pushed by right-wing fixer Roy Cohn toward a job at the Justice Department. Pitt and Cohn are closeted: Pitt, out of shame and religious turmoil; Cohn, to preserve his power and access. Pitt's wife Harper is strung out on Valium, aching to escape a sexless marriage. An angel invites Prior to be a prophet in death.

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RELEASE DATE2003-12-07

CONTENT TYPETV series

MOVIE SCREEN angels-in-america

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▶ 'I Am a Messenger' Trailer | Angels in America | HBO Classics · Official ▶ Angels In America [ Official HBO Trailer ]

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Al PacinoRoy Cohn

Justin KirkPrior Walter / Leatherman in the Park

Ben ShenkmanLouis Ironson / The Angel Oceania

Mary-Louise ParkerHarper Pitt

Meryl StreepHannah Pitt / Ethel Rosenberg / The Rabbi / The Angel Australia

Jeffrey WrightNorman 'Belize' Ariaga / Mr. Lies / Homeless man / The Angel Europa

Patrick WilsonJoe Pitt

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Cary BrokawExecutive Producer Celia D. CostasProducer Mike NicholsExecutive Producer Tony KushnerTeleplay Tony KushnerTheatre Play

ARTWORK GALLERY

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Limited Series

6 episodes · First aired 2003-12-07 · ★ 7.7 God has abandoned Heaven. It's 1985: the Reagans are in the White House and Death swings the scythe of AIDS. In Manhattan, Prior Walter tells Louis, his lover of four years, he's ill; Louis leaves but asvdisease and loneliness ravage Prior, guilt invades Louis. Joe Pitt, a Mormon Republican attorney, is pushed by right-wing fixer Roy Cohn toward a job at the Justice Department. Pitt and Cohn are closeted: Pitt, out of shame and religious turmoil; Cohn, to preserve his power and access. Pitt's wife Harper is strung out on Valium, aching to escape a sexless marriage. An angel invites Prior to be a prophet in death.

E01

Millennium Approaches: Bad News 2003-12-07 · 66 min

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.

★ 7.4

E02

Millennium Approaches: In Vitro 2003-12-07 · 55 min

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.

★ 8.0

E03

Millennium Approaches: The Messenger 2003-12-07 · 58 min

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.

★ 7.4

E04

Perestroika: Stop Moving! 2003-12-14 · 57 min

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.

★ 7.6

E05

Perestroika: Beyond Nelly 2003-12-14 · 63 min

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.

★ 6.1

E06

Perestroika: Heaven, I'm in Heaven 2003-12-14 · 76 min

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.

★ 10.0