Look up! Look up! Prepare the way... The messenger is coming. Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning play written by Tony Kushner and produced by HBO, Angels In America features Al Pacino, Meryl Streep, and Emma Thompson leading an all-star cast in this two-part, six-hour epic miniseries. And now, Angels In America is being released on DVD in Taiwan by Warner Home Video Taiwan.
The two full-length plays (Part 1: The Millennium Approaches, Part 2: Perestroika) were originally performed on Broadway in 1993, and were adapted for the screen by the playwright and director Mike Nichols in 2003. Set in New York City in the mid-'80s, the story unfolds following the interconnected lives of several characters.
Joe Pitt (Patrick Wilson) is a closeted gay mormon, who married his wife Harper (Mary-Louise Parker) to deny his homosexuality. Harper suffers from an addiction to Valium due to the lack of intimacy with Joe. Meanwhile, conservative power-broker Roy Cohn (Al Pacino), who gave Joe the offer of promotion, is dying of AIDS. He is a homophobic closeted gay, who denies his own illness. because he believes the sickness is only for weak people, and he is neither weak nor gay. Finally, he gets very sick and is sent to a hospital under the care of the nurse Belize (Jeffrey Wright), who is an African-American drag queen.
And there is another person who has AIDS in the miniseries — Prior Walter (Justin Kirk), a likable young man who lives on a small trust fund. He lives with his boyfriend, Louis Ironson (Ben Shenkman) and wonders if he is crazy as he is visited by ghosts of his ancestors, and selected by angels to be a prophet. Louis eventually can't take the pressure of his illness anymore. He abandons Prior and starts a relationship with the married mormon Lawyer, Joe.
看哪！看哪！準備好⋯⋯上帝的使者要來了。《美國天使》是根據東尼庫許納獲得普立茲獎的劇作改編，並由HBO製作而成。《美國天使》由艾爾帕西諾、梅麗史翠普和艾瑪湯普遜領銜主演，現在，這部分為兩個部分共六個小時的史詩影集終於由華納家庭娛樂有限公司在台發行DVD。
《美國天使》由兩個完整部分組成（第一部：千禧年近了；第二部：重建），原劇於一九九三年在百老匯上演，並於二○○三年由作者本人和導演麥克尼可斯改編成電視劇本。劇中時空設於八零年代中期的紐約，隨著劇中角色相互交織的生命，故事就此展開。
喬 （派崔克威爾森飾）是一位未出櫃的同志摩門教徒，他和妻子哈波（瑪麗路易斯派克飾）結婚是為了否認自己的同性戀傾向。而哈波因為缺乏和喬的親密互動，而大 量服用鎮靜劑。同時，提拔喬的保守權力掮客洛伊正為愛滋病所苦。洛伊是一位敵視同性戀的未出櫃同志，並拒絕正視自己患病的事實，因為他相信這種病是只有弱 者才會得到的病，而他覺得自己並不是弱者，更不是同性戀。後來他病得很嚴重，並被送到醫院去。照顧他的是護士碧莉絲（傑佛瑞萊特飾）— 一位非洲裔的變裝皇后。
而影集中還有另一角色患有愛滋病，那就是派歐（賈斯汀柯克飾）— 一位可愛的年輕人，靠著一小筆信托基金過活。他和他的男友路易斯（班 沈克曼飾）住在一起，不過他懷疑自己是不是瘋了，因為他的祖先的鬼魂常來拜訪他，還被 天使們選為先知。路易斯最後再也受不了疾病的壓力，於是他拋棄了派歐，並和已婚的摩門教律師喬發展出一段關係。
The two full-length plays (Part 1: The Millennium Approaches, Part 2: Perestroika) were originally performed on Broadway in 1993, and were adapted for the screen by the playwright and director Mike Nichols in 2003. Set in New York City in the mid-'80s, the story unfolds following the interconnected lives of several characters.
Joe Pitt (Patrick Wilson) is a closeted gay mormon, who married his wife Harper (Mary-Louise Parker) to deny his homosexuality. Harper suffers from an addiction to Valium due to the lack of intimacy with Joe. Meanwhile, conservative power-broker Roy Cohn (Al Pacino), who gave Joe the offer of promotion, is dying of AIDS. He is a homophobic closeted gay, who denies his own illness. because he believes the sickness is only for weak people, and he is neither weak nor gay. Finally, he gets very sick and is sent to a hospital under the care of the nurse Belize (Jeffrey Wright), who is an African-American drag queen.
And there is another person who has AIDS in the miniseries — Prior Walter (Justin Kirk), a likable young man who lives on a small trust fund. He lives with his boyfriend, Louis Ironson (Ben Shenkman) and wonders if he is crazy as he is visited by ghosts of his ancestors, and selected by angels to be a prophet. Louis eventually can't take the pressure of his illness anymore. He abandons Prior and starts a relationship with the married mormon Lawyer, Joe.
看哪！看哪！準備好⋯⋯上帝的使者要來了。《美國天使》是根據東尼庫許納獲得普立茲獎的劇作改編，並由HBO製作而成。《美國天使》由艾爾帕西諾、梅麗史翠普和艾瑪湯普遜領銜主演，現在，這部分為兩個部分共六個小時的史詩影集終於由華納家庭娛樂有限公司在台發行DVD。
《美國天使》由兩個完整部分組成（第一部：千禧年近了；第二部：重建），原劇於一九九三年在百老匯上演，並於二○○三年由作者本人和導演麥克尼可斯改編成電視劇本。劇中時空設於八零年代中期的紐約，隨著劇中角色相互交織的生命，故事就此展開。
喬 （派崔克威爾森飾）是一位未出櫃的同志摩門教徒，他和妻子哈波（瑪麗路易斯派克飾）結婚是為了否認自己的同性戀傾向。而哈波因為缺乏和喬的親密互動，而大 量服用鎮靜劑。同時，提拔喬的保守權力掮客洛伊正為愛滋病所苦。洛伊是一位敵視同性戀的未出櫃同志，並拒絕正視自己患病的事實，因為他相信這種病是只有弱 者才會得到的病，而他覺得自己並不是弱者，更不是同性戀。後來他病得很嚴重，並被送到醫院去。照顧他的是護士碧莉絲（傑佛瑞萊特飾）— 一位非洲裔的變裝皇后。
而影集中還有另一角色患有愛滋病，那就是派歐（賈斯汀柯克飾）— 一位可愛的年輕人，靠著一小筆信托基金過活。他和他的男友路易斯（班 沈克曼飾）住在一起，不過他懷疑自己是不是瘋了，因為他的祖先的鬼魂常來拜訪他，還被 天使們選為先知。路易斯最後再也受不了疾病的壓力，於是他拋棄了派歐，並和已婚的摩門教律師喬發展出一段關係。
