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Call Number: DVD00044

by Mike Nichols; Al Pacino; Meryl Streep; Emma Thompson; Mary-Louise Parker; Jeffrey Wright; Justin Kirk; Ben Shenkman; Patrick Wilson; James Cromwell; Stephen Goldblatt; John Bloom; Thomas Newman; Ann Roth; Stuart Wurtzel; Richard Edlund; Tony Kushner; HBO Films.; Avenue Pictures.; HBO Video (Firm);

Format: DVD

Language: English

Publisher: New York, NY : HBO Video, ©2004.

Notes: Originally aired in 2003 (352 mins.); based on the play by Tony Kushner; Nominated for 21 2004 Emmy Awards;

Summary: Set in 1985. Revolves around two very different men with AIDS, one fictional, one fictionalized. Roy Cohn, personifies all the hypocrisy, delusion and callousness of the official response to the plague. Nothing shakes Roy’s lack of empathy: even on his death bed, he’s fighting with his gay nurse and taunting the woman he helped put to death, Ethel Rosenberg. The other patient is Prior Walter, who is visited by an angel and deserted by his self-pitying lover, Louis. Louis moves on to a relationship with Joe Pitt, a Mormon lawyer whose closeted homosexuality drives his wife to delusions and brings his mother to New York.

OCLC #: 54435745