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Angels in America (TV Miniseries)

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Angels in America

2003

Mike Nichols

Al Pacino, Meryl Streep, Emma Thompson, Patrick Wilson ...

7.1

2,844

TV Series. Drama 6 episodes. It follows a sprawling group of characters as they navigate their way through the cutthroat New York City of the 1980s, when AIDS began to rear its ugly head. Getting sicker by the minute, Prior Walter (Justin Kirk) is abandoned by his tormented lover, Louis (Ben Shenkman). Deluded lawyer Roy Cohn (Al Pacino) is visited by Ethel Rosenberg (Meryl Streep), a woman he helped to condemn. And the pill-popping Harper (Mary-Louis ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Stephen Holden The New York Times	"The best Movie of the Year 2003 (...) Mike Nichols's small-screen version of Tony Kushner's incendiary AIDS phantasmagoria (...) its integrity remains intact."	POS
United States	Ken Tucker Entertainment Weekly	I'm tempted to be flip and say this is Nichols' best movie since ''Working Girl' (...) 'Angels'' qualities are necessary to sell the extravagantly magisterial material (...) to a television audience"	POS
United States	Robert Bianco USA Today	"Extravagantly conceived and gloriously realized, Angels in America is not just one of the best television movies ever made — it's also a transcendent work of art. (...) Meryl Streep and Al Pacino, giving performances that rival the best of their legendary careers"	POS
United States	Matthew Gilbert Boston Globe	"Director Mike Nichols, and a magnificent cast led by Meryl Streep have pulled a spellbinding and revelatory TV movie out of the Tony- and Pulitzer Prize-winning work. (...) 'Angels in America' unfolds into the most powerful television experience of the year"	POS
United States	Todd McCarthy Variety	"Fully capturing the grandeur, extravagance, urgency, poetry and humor of the produced play, the savvy veteran director has brought out an elemental dimension of emotional melodrama that makes the piece compulsive screen fare"	POS
United States	Nancy Franklin The New Yorker	"Nichols’s version hasn’t watered down the message, but watching it on TV alone in your living room reduces the work to the sum of its parts. What’s missing is the sense of community that you experience in a theatre."	NEU
United States	Slate	"What works best here is what worked best onstage — Kushner's writing (...) Nichols' sense of Kushner's rhythm is off here, as is his sense of Kushner's juxtapositions."	NEU

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