At a Glance

An adaptation of a stage play which interconnects the lives of several people affected by the AIDS crisis, spiritual experiences and the Reagan administration. These people are visited by an Angel who crashes through the roof insisting he's a prophet. The film follows a 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 is abandoned by his tormented lover, Louis (played by Ben Shenkman). Deluded lawyer Roy Cohn (played by Al Pacino) is visited by Ethel Rosenberg (played by Meryl Streep), a woman he helped to condemn. Pill-popping Harper (played by Mary-Louis Parker) is on the verge of losing her sanity when she realises that her husband is a closet homosexual. Based on Tony Kushner's Pulitzer Prize-winning play and hailed as a modern classic.