Angels In America DVD

Product Description

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play Academy Award-winners Al Pacino Meryl Streep & Emma Thompson lead an all-star cast in a 6 hour HBO Films event written by Tony Kushner based on his Pulitzer Prize-winning play The film tells the story of a gay man (Louis Ironson) struggling with his compassion & fidelity as his partner (Prior Walter) faces the spectre of AIDS & dreamlike visitations by a prophet seeking Angel Louis becomes involved with a NY Supreme Court Clerk who wrestles with his career & sexual repression as his marriage to his Valium-addicted wife (Harper Pitt) unravels Motivated to help her son the clerk&s Mormon mother (Hannah Pitt) comes from Salt Lake to the intimidating world of New York while a controversial & legendary lawyer Roy Cohn (a fictional re-creation of the infamous American conservative ideologue who died of AIDS in 1986) attempts to enlist the clerk in his defense as he is ravaged by a hidden disease & the demons of his own hypocrisy Spanning the extremes of comedy & tragedy love & betrayal & life & death Angels in America is a journey through the landscape of despair & hope that defines America at the end of the 20th Century Actors Al Pacino Meryl Streep Emma Thompson Justin Kirk Ben Shenkman Mary-Louise Parker Jeffrey Wright James Cromwell Simon Callow & Michael Gambon Director Mike Nichols Certificate 18 years & over Year 2003 Screen Widescreen 169 Anamorphic Languages English
- Dolby Digital (51) Subtitles English ; Swedish ; Portuguese ; Hebrew ; English for the hearing impaired Duration 6 hours & 15 minutes (approx) Region Region 2
- Will only play on European Region 2 or multi-region DVD players