HBO - Angels In America

Was channel surfing last night when I came upon HBO channel. It was showing Angels In America...3 episodes...back to back...

I missed the first half an hour of the show and the final half hour of the 3rd episode...coz too sleepy to continue watching.
The cast & crew are BIG!!!
-Academy Award-winners Al Pacino, Meryl Streep and Emma Thompson lead an all-star cast in a 6-hour HBO Films Event. Directed by Mike Nichols and written by Tony Kushner based on his Pulitzer Prize-winning play: Angels in America.


Plot summary for the show:-
Look up! Look up! Prepare the way...The Messenger is coming...

The complex story is a "slice of life" (and love, and death) among gay and straight characters in the politically-charged mid 1980's during which the AIDS epidemic became a fact of life.

The play examines the relevancy of religion and spirituality at a time of crisis, highlighted by the appearance of a combative angel to a man in the end stages of AIDS, proclaiming him an unwilling prophet.

The play also includes the plight of a Mormon attorney realizing his marriage is a lie, the politics of healthcare during the Reagan era, a gay man's decision to leave his HIV-infected lover, and a conservative attorney who is used to "beating the system" finding a fight he can't win.