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In 1993, Al Pacino committed to playing the role of Roy Cohn. In the meantime, a number of directors, including Robert Altman, were part of the project. Altman worked on the project in 1993 and 1994, before budget constraints forced him to move out, as few studios could risk producing two successive 150-minute movies at the cost of $40 million.
Angels in America: With Al Pacino, Mary-Louise Parker, Justin Kirk, Jeffrey Wright. In 1985, Prior is diagnosed with AIDS and his lover Louis deserts him. Powerful lawyer Roy Cohn tempts Mormon and closeted gay Joe Pitt to the dark side.
Joe visits Roy, who is near death, and receives a final, paternal blessing from his mentor. However, when Joe confesses he has left Harper for a man, Roy rejects him in a violent reaction of fear and rage, ordering him to return to his wife and cover up his indiscretion.
Dominating both the play and the film is the historical figure of Roy Cohn (Al Pacino), a man whom Louis calls "the polestar of human evil." A corrupt lawyer, Cohn sat at the right hand of Senator Joseph McCarthy during the House Unamerican Activities hearings in the 1950s.
While conservative attorney and closeted homosexual Roy Cohn (Al Pacino) slowly dies of AIDS, he is tormented by the ghost of Ethel Rosenberg (Meryl Streep), whom he helped convict of being...
Joe Pitt, a Mormon and Republican attorney, is pushed by right-wing fixer Roy Cohn toward a job at the US Department of Justice. Both Pitt and Cohn are in the closet: Pitt out of shame and religious turmoil, Cohn to preserve his power and image.
19 mar 2014 · Al Pacino plays the rabid right-winger and closeted homosexual Roy Cohn, Meryl Streep is the Mormon matron Hannah Pitt, Emma Thompson is the Angel, Mary-Louise Parker is the overmedicated and...
