Angels in America

About

You can stream Angels in America (2003) on Max with a subscription.

God has abandoned Heaven. It's 1985: the Reagans are in the White House and Death swings the scythe of AIDS. In Manhattan, Prior Walter tells Louis, his lover of four years, he's ill; Louis leaves but as disease and loneliness ravage Prior, guilt invades Louis. Joe Pitt, a Mormon Republican attorney, is pushed by right-wing fixer Roy Cohn toward a job at the Justice Department. Pitt and Cohn are closeted: Pitt, out of shame and religious turmoil; Cohn, to preserve his power and access. Pitt's wife Harper is strung out on Valium, aching to escape a sexless marriage. An angel invites Prior to be a prophet in death.

As AIDS ravages Manhattan in the mid-eighties, a fractured society grapples with a God who has seemingly abandoned his throne. This sprawling epic captures the collision of political apathy and personal agony through a lens of magical realism.

Trailer