

Angels in America
Follow six New Yorkers whose lives intersect amidst the AIDS crisis and the rapidly changing socio-political climate of 1985.
Overview
Follow six New Yorkers whose lives intersect amidst the AIDS crisis and the rapidly changing socio-political climate of 1985.
Cary Brokaw
Creator / EP
Celia D. Costas
Producer
Episodes

1. 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.

2. 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.

3. 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.
Cast & Crew

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




