Angels in America
The messenger has arrived.
Follow six New Yorkers whose lives intersect amidst the AIDS crisis and the rapidly changing socio-political climate of 1985.
tv Seasons & Episodes
Millennium Approaches: Chapter One - Bad News
Prior Walter is diagnosed with AIDS that changes his life and he must deal with such new obstacle. Moreover, his partner abandoned him. He has also increasing hallucinations and Mormon's mother comes to New York in order to save her son's marriage. Meanwhile, Roy Cohn checks into the hospital.
Dec 7, 2003
Millennium Approaches: Chapter Two - In Vitro
Louis abandons a hospitalized Prior; Joe and Roy confide in each other over drinks. Later, Prior hears voices from his hospital bed while Louis solicits sex from strangers, and Joe makes a drunken confession to his mother.
Dec 7, 2003
Millennium Approaches: Chapter Three - The Messenger
Prior returns home and is visited by a pair of spectral namesake ancestors who herald the arrival of the messenger; a tussle with Joe leaves Roy with the ghost of Ethel Rosenberg. Later, Joe and Louis hook up in Central Park while Prior meets the angelic messenger.
Dec 7, 2003
Perestroika: Chapter Four - Stop Moving!
The story continues with Prior finally confronting the visions, Cohn desperately trying to manipulate the system to his benefit - all the while haunted by one of his victims, and Harper attempting to regain control of her life.
Dec 14, 2003
Perestroika: Chapter Five - Beyond Nelly
Louis arranges a meeting with Prior; Joe visits Roy in the hospital and gets an unwelcome father's blessing; Prior drags Belize to the courthouse for a surprise meeting with the clerk and later strikes up a friendship with Hannah. High on morphine, Roy paints a different picture of heaven.
Dec 14, 2003
Perestroika: Chapter Six - Heaven, I'm in Heaven
A fight with Joe leaves Louis badly scarred; Roy plays a final practical joke on Ethel; Prior wrestles the Angel and then addresses a review board in Heaven; Harper heads out West; Prior, outliving his diagnosis, pays a visit to his favorite angel and vows to keep living--free of secrets.
Dec 14, 2003
people Cast
Al Pacino
Roy Cohn
Meryl Streep
Hannah Pitt / Ethel Rosenberg / The Rabbi / The Angel Australia
Emma Thompson
Nurse Emily / Homeless Woman / The Angel
Mary-Louise Parker
Harper Pitt
Jeffrey Wright
Norman "Belize" Ariaga / Mr. Lies / Homeless man / The Angel Europa
Justin Kirk
Prior Walter / Leatherman in the Park
Ben Shenkman
Louis Ironson / The Angel Oceania
Patrick Wilson
Joe Pitt
Brian Markinson
Martin Heller
apartment Production Companies
HBO Films