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Actors: Meryl Streep, Al Pacino, Ben Shenkman, Patrick Wilson, Mary-Louise Parker,
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about Angels in America |
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Based on the play by Tony Kushner, HBO made a movie version featuring an all-star cast. Prior Walter (Justin Kirk) plays a homosexual man who just tells his lover, Lou (Ben Shenkman), that he is dying of Aids. Lou runs off because he is afraid of sickness and death. He then joins up with an "in the closet" married coworker, Joe Pitt (Patrick Wilson). Joe Pitt is a Morman republican lawyer who works for Roy Cohn (Al Pacino) , a lawyer who also has Aids and is about to get disbarred. Getting confused yet? Pitt's wife Harper (Mary-Louise Parker) is Valium addicted and has wierd dreams that take her to places like Antartica. She is Valium addicted because she is not getting enough sex from Joe, because he's gay. Meanwhile, Prior is having dreams of angels and they tell him he is a prophet.
--Dashaun Montanez, Resident Scholar
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Time/era of movie:
- 1980's-1999
Taboo Sex Story?
Yes
Kind of sex:
- Two guys MAKING OUT (squish squish!)
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Profession/status:
- a lawyer creature
Age:
- 20's-30's
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events?
Yes
How sensitive is this character?
- sensitive to others' feelings
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Main Adversary
Identity:
- a fight for survival
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- 40%
Setting
City?
Yes
City:
- New York
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- moderately detailed references to deaths
Movie makes you feel...
- concerned
Sex/nudity in movie?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- kissing
- touching of personal anatomy
- actual description of sex
- seeing breasts
- seeing nude female butt
- seeing nude male butt
- seeing full frontal--men
- sex under blankets
If this isn't a movie...
- Play
Any profanity?
- A lot of foul language
Is this movie based on a
- play
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