Director: Mike Nichols

Writer: Tony Kushner

From a play by: Tony Kushner

Keywords: Drama

Television adaptation of the Tony Kushner play of the same name follows the lives of a number of New Yorkers during the AIDS crisis of the 1980s.

ABSTRACT
AIDS ravages America's gay community in the mid-1980s amidst a moral panic produced by uncertainty over the illness and the paranoia of a Moral Majority-dominated federal government. Angels in America follows Manhattan as it is affected by the crisis; openly gay Prior Walter is left by lover Louis after disclosing his diagnosis, while self-hating anti-gay political figures Joe Pitt and Roy Cohn remain in the closet out of fear for their livelihoods. Prior has a traumatic religious experience involving angels as Joe and Roy sink deeper into their lie-infested lives. Widely considered one of the greatest made-for-cable features of all time, Angels in America -- broadcast as a six-part HBO miniseries -- won eleven Emmys and five Golden Globes.

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
James Cromwell	Actor	27-Jan-1940		Babe, L.A. Confidential
Justin Kirk	Actor	28-May-1969		Angels in America
Al Pacino	Actor	25-Apr-1940		Michael Corleone in The Godfather
Mary-Louise Parker	Actor	2-Aug-1964		Weeds
Ben Shenkman	Actor	26-Sep-1968		Pi
Meryl Streep	Actor	22-Jun-1949		The Deer Hunter
Emma Thompson	Actor	15-Apr-1959		Howard's End
Patrick Wilson	Actor	3-Jul-1973		The Phantom of the Opera
Jeffrey Wright	Actor	7-Dec-1965		Basquiat

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