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Features: DVD, 2 Disc, Widescreen, Dolby Digital (5.1), English, French, Spanish, Subtitled
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. Running Time: 352 min.Format: DVD MOVIE
"Not only the best television of the year but, hands down, the best movie, period." New York Magazine
Editor's Note
In transferring Tony Kushner's Pulitzer Prize-winning play to the small screen, director Mike Nichols has crafted a profound, ambitious masterpiece. The film follows a sprawling group of characters as they navigate their way through the cutthroat New York City of the 1980s, when AIDS began to rear its ugly head. Getting sicker by the minute, Prior Walter is abandoned by his tormented lover, Louis (Ben Shenkman); deluded lawyer Roy Cohn (Al Pacino) is visited by Ethel Rosenberg (Meryl Streep), a woman he helped to condemn; and the pill-popping Harper (Mary-Louis Parker) is on the verge of losing her sanity when she realizes that her husband, Joe (Patrick Wilson), is a closet homosexual.Like the best works of art, Nichols' production doesn't merely reflect a particular chapter in America's history. It floats deeper, into a world where everyday feelings are elevated to a spiritual realm. Already hailed as a modern classic, ANGELS IN AMERICA is one of the medium's crowning achievements.
| Features | "Part 1: Millenium Approaches" (Chapters 1-3) | | "Part 2: Perestroika" (Chapters 4-6) | | Audio: English Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Sound; English, Spanish Dolby Digital Stereo | | Interactive Menus | | Scene Selection | | Subtitles: English, French, Spanish |
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Release Information
| | Studio: HBO |
| Release Date: 12/5/2006 |
| Running Time: 352 minutes |
| Original Release Date: 2003 | | Catalog ID: 92299 | | UPC: 00026359229923 | | Number of Discs: 2 |
Audio & Video
| | Original Language: English | | Available Audio Tracks: English [CC], English, Spanish Dubbed | | Available Subtitles: English, French, Spanish | | Video: Color |
Aspect Ratio | | Widescreen 1.85:1 |
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| | Professional Reviews | Movieline's Hollywood Life
"ANGELS is a buoyant, metaphor-packed epic..." 09/01/2004 p.118USA Today
"[A] six-hour triumph for Mike Nichols....Consistently absorbing..." 09/17/2004 p.13E Chicago Sun-Times
"It deals with life and death and nearly everything in between, commenting on everything along the way, daring you to define your own beliefs in its utter lack of ambivalence." 09/17/2004 p.21 Uncut
"Both epic and intimate." 11/01/2004 p.162 |
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