Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 9780783129501
Format: Anamorphic
ISBN: 0783129505
Label: HBO Home Video
Manufacturer: HBO Home Video
Number Of Items: 2
Publisher: HBO Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: 2004-09-14
Running Time: 352
Studio: HBO Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: 2003-12-07
MPN: HBOD92299D

Academy Award-winners Al Pacino, Meryl Streep and Emma Thompson lead an all-star cast in a 6-hour HBO Films Event. Directed by Mike Nichols and written by Tony Kushner based on his Pulitzer Prize-winning play: Angels in America.

Customer Rating:
Summary: ANGELS (AND MORMONS) IN AMERICA
Comment: If you are an adult Mormon in America, you will relate to ANGELS IN AMERICA. Tony Kushner has absorbed and filtered back more Mormon concepts and theology within the 6-hour boundaries of this film than any other Jewish American playwright. He is to be commended for the effort. He has done his homework. His personal interpretations of God (and/or the lack thereof) are not mine, nor need they be yours. But as a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints for the past 50 years, I pronounce this film to be "virtuous, lovely and of good report". Do not get bogged down with the sex or language. See them for what they are: incidentals. Focus instead on the human (and spiritual) interaction in the face of AIDS, and by extension all disease. Add the kaleidoscopic variables of human interactions. After viewing this serendipitous masterpiece, thoughtfully witness, thoughtfully ponder, and thoughtfully ACT. Follow up with meaningful help to make the world a better place for us all.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: What a waste
Comment: It is a shame that such great actors would lower themselves and play in a movie that was so bad. Don't waste your money.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: What More Can I Say?
Comment: This is a very artistic, moving, funny, sad and whimsical adaptation of the play that will be a welcome addition to your DVD collection. Now just waiting for it to come out in Blu-Ray!

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Hopelessly intriguing, but confusing
Comment: This film completely engrossed me, even though I couldn't for the life of me tell you what it was really, truly about. I mean, of course the film is about being gay in New York in the 1980s as a new and deadly disease swirls all around. Perhaps it was the fantasy sequences that got me.

The acting was fabulous, especially those actors (already mentioned many times by other reviewers) who took multiple roles. Justin Kirk and Jeffrey Wright were a wonder. I had only seen Wright in one other movie (Basquiat, that was him, wasn't it?) and I liked him then...

I still cannot figure out why Joe Pitt is shunned at the end, even as his mother becomes central to the in-group. Or, does Joe - the model of right-wing Republicanism who perhaps grows/changes least during the film - do the shunning?

Don't expect any easy answers or - perhaps - even likable characters in this one (I did like Prior and Harper Pitt, though). Do expect to be challenged to your core by this lengthy, entertaining, thought-provoking piece.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Monumental
Comment: I'm not a gay person, and I have not had many gay friends, but I watched this series and found it to be tremendously moving and compelling. It's something that should be seen by everyone.
The acting by all concerned is incredible, and not just the powerhouse names like Al Pacino and Meryl Streep. Mary-Louise Parker is brilliant, as is Justin Kirk as Prior Walter, the main character (now doing great work in Weeds, along with Mary-Louise again). Emma Thompson's nurse is amazing. Tony Kushner's dialogue is endlessly funny, sad, provocative, blistering, heart-rending.
This movie goes way beyond mere sexual orientation. It will forever change--for the better--the way you view your fellow human beings.

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