Angels in America (2003) Millenium Approaches - Chapter 3: The Messenger
Set in 1985, Angels in America 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.
Primary Title
- Angels in America
Episode Title
- Millenium Approaches - Chapter 3: The Messenger
Date Broadcast
- Sunday 6 January 2013
Release Year
- 2003
Start Time
- 03 : 00
Finish Time
- 04 : 00
Duration
- 60:00
Episode
- 3
Channel
- SoHo
Broadcaster
- Sky Network Television
Programme Description
- Set in 1985, Angels in America 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.
Classification
- 16
Owning Collection
- Chapman Archive
Broadcast Platform
- Television
Languages
- English
Live Broadcast
- No
Rights Statement
- Made for the University of Auckland's educational use as permitted by the Screenrights Licensing Agreement.
Subjects
- Television mini-series--United States
- Gay men--United States--Drama
- AIDS (Disease)--United States--Drama
Genres
- Drama
Contributors
- Al Pacino (Actor)
- Meryl Streep (Actor)
- Patrick Wilson (Actor)
- Mary-Louise Parker (Actor)
- Emma Thompson (Actor)
- Justin Kirk (Actor)
- Jeffrey Wright (Actor)
- Ben Shenkman (Actor)
- Tony Kushner (Writer)
- Mike Nichols (Director)
- HBO (Production Unit)
Subjects
- Television mini-series--United States
- Gay men--United States--Drama
- AIDS (Disease)--United States--Drama