Angels in America

2003 star 7.6 tv1 Season play_circle6 Episodes

The messenger has arrived.

Follow six New Yorkers whose lives intersect amidst the AIDS crisis and the rapidly changing socio-political climate of 1985.

Drama Sci-Fi & Fantasy

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Episode 1
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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

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Episode 2
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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

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Episode 3
E3

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

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Episode 4
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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

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Episode 5
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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

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Episode 6
E6

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

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people Cast

Al Pacino

Al Pacino

Roy Cohn

Meryl Streep

Meryl Streep

Hannah Pitt / Ethel Rosenberg / The Rabbi / The Angel Australia

Emma Thompson

Emma Thompson

Nurse Emily / Homeless Woman / The Angel

Mary-Louise Parker

Mary-Louise Parker

Harper Pitt

Jeffrey Wright

Jeffrey Wright

Norman "Belize" Ariaga / Mr. Lies / Homeless man / The Angel Europa

Justin Kirk

Justin Kirk

Prior Walter / Leatherman in the Park

Ben Shenkman

Ben Shenkman

Louis Ironson / The Angel Oceania

Patrick Wilson

Patrick Wilson

Joe Pitt

Brian Markinson

Brian Markinson

Martin Heller

apartment Production Companies

HBO Films HBO Films
apartment Avenue Pictures
apartment Avenue Entertainment

public Countries

United States of America