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| | Angels in America (2003) |
 | | Set in 1985, Angels in America follows the impact of AIDS on a group of people whose relationship to each other is circular: At the center is Prior Walter (Justin Kirk), a charismatic young WASP who has just been diagnosed with AIDS. |
 | | Prior is visited by an Angel (Emma Thompson, who also plays Prior's nurse and a homeless woman) descending from the heavens in a very messy way (literally and symbolically), both terrifying and intriguing Prior with her insistence that he is a prophet and that he must join her. |
 | | Through Prior's varying states of health and illness, his abandonment by Louis, his auditory and visual hallucinations, the enormous range of emotional and physical states evoked by his encounters with the Angel (sexual and otherwise), to his confrontation with an entire board of angels at the culmination of the second part, Kirk is absolutely compelling. |
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