Angels in America
by Mike Nichols
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Actor: Al Pacino, Emma Thompson, Mary-Louise Parker, Meryl Streep, Patrick WilsonDirector: Mike Nichols
Brand: Warner Brothers
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; Spanish (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, Dubbed, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.78:1
Running Time: 352 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-09-14
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: HBO Home Video
DVD Reviews of Angels in America
DVD Review: A Great Masterpiece of Film Making and Script
Summary: 5 Stars
I feel superfluous writing a review of this wonderful film after so many eloquent people have already written perceptive & glowing tributes, so I'll make it short. I thought I could never see a film greater than the top dramatic works of genius such as "Night Of The Iguana", "A Street Car Named Desire", "On The Waterfront", "Wild Strawberries", and "To Kill a Mockingbird" to name some that come quickly to mind, but this film I have to put into a category of its own. Good plays always represent a potential for good films since they already have a good script to start with - the least a play must have. But take a great play like this one by the genius of Tony Kushner, add the genius of a director in top form together with top actors like Al Pucino at his best with the other great performances by the amazing Mary Louise Parker, the strikingly superb Ben Shenkman and Patrick Wilson along with the divine Emma Thompson and you get an incredible knock out film that's more than a movie somehow. The constantly engrossing dialogue, the wonderful visual effects, the fascinating characters and story development makes one marvel. This is a unique film-phenomenon that hits very hard, knocks you around, throws you on the floor and makes you marvel at last at creation. DVD Review: Angels in America
Summary: 5 Stars
Movie was terrific!! We usually don't buy dvd's UNLESS we enjoyed the movie so much that we'd watch it again and again. This is one of those movies! First saw it on TV and while on Amazon for something else, thought of it and bought it. Story line, acting, special effects -- ALL were fantastic! Have already watched it again, this time with the kids (16 & 18 -- they hadn't seen it before) and they enjoyed it as well. It should have won an Oscar on a few levels, that's how good I thought it was.DVD Review: Angels in America
Summary: 4 Stars
The mini series is worth watching. It should have shown more of the ghetto and urban side of AIDS. I enjoyed Al Pacino and Jeffery White. Jeffery White made the movie a true gem. Even with Al Pacino as Roy Cohn I still hated him. I say hate because he hated himself and that is a hateful thing.DVD Review: A realistic saga
Summary: 5 Stars
This movie is great! Al Pacino was fantastic, as was Jeffrey Wright, who've played a Hispanic drug-lord, to Muddy Waters. This is a must see film, which is very touching.DVD Review: Highly deceptive waste of time
Summary: 1 Stars
Well if I could have given this less than 1 star I would have.
It was hard to stomach the first minutes of the movie and we finally turned it off after the foul language, sexual references were getting to much.
It's not rated per the packaging but would easily have been "R" or "NC-17" if it had come out in the theaters.
Definately not a family movie and really doesn't seem to have anything to do with Angels, unless they are gay and/or use foul language every fifth word.
Too bad the packaging did not have any kind of synopsis or the like so I would not have wasted my time even starting the movie.
I'm suprised that it supposedly won a bunch of awards.
Don't waste your time. Don't be deceived.
Description of Angels in America
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.Tony Kushner's prize-winning play Angels in America became the defining theatrical event of the 1990s, an astonishing mix of philosophy, politics, and vibrant gay soap opera that summed up the Reagan era for an entire generation of theater-goers. Post-9/11 would seem to be too late for a film version--philosophy and politics don't always age well--but this 2003 HBO adaptation, ably directed by Mike Nichols (The Graduate), provides a time capsule of the '80s and reveals the deep emotional subcurrents that will give the play lasting power.
The story centers around Prior Walter (Justin Kirk) and Louis Ironson (Ben Shenkman), a gay couple that falls apart when Prior grows ill as a result of AIDS. But cancer is not the only thing invading Prior's life: He begins to have religious visions of an angel (Emma Thompson, Sense and Sensibility) announcing that he is a prophet. Louis, who doesn't cope well with disease and suggestions of mortality, leaves and starts a relationship with Joe Pitt (Patrick Wilson), a closeted Mormon who works for Roy Cohn (Al Pacino, Dog Day Afternoon)--the real-life right-wing lawyer, notorious for his ruthless behind-the-scenes machinations. Add in Joe's depressed and hallucinating wife Harper (Mary Louise Parker, Fried Green Tomatoes), his determined but open-minded mother Hannah (Meryl Streep, Adaptation), a fierce drag queen/nurse named Belize (Jeffrey Wright, Basquiat, reprising his celebrated performance from the Broadway production), and you've still only begun to discover the wealth of characters and storylines in Kushner's ambitious work.
The powerhouse cast (also featuring James Cromwell, Michael Gambon, and Simon Callow) is uniformly superb. The script has its weaknesses--some of the fantastic elements, including Prior's journey to Heaven towards the end, fall flat--but even what doesn't work is bristling with ideas and a ferocious desire to capture human existence in this time and place. --Bret Fetzer
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