Wrestling with Angels: Playwright Tony Kushner
Synopsis is coming from the Sundance Film Festival Institute:
One of our greatest living playwrights, Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winner Tony Kushner
(Angels in America) is a consummate artist and indomitable political activist committed to
equality and social justice. A Jewish homosexual raised in the heart of the Deep South,
Kushner has become a compassionate voice for outsiders in a climate of repression and
censorship. Wrestling with Angels covers three years of Kushner's life from 9/11 to the 2004
presidential election, capturing the fierce moral responsibility that pervades this passionate
artist's work. Perhaps the greatest compliment to Freida Lee Mock's film is that she does
justice to her brilliant subject, entwining interviews with leading theatre artists and
personal moments from Kushner's life with scenes from his plays. Watching Marcia Gay Harden as
Laura Bush in a scene from one of Kushner's lesser-known plays is worth the price of admission
itself. Hearing Meryl Streep read a prayer that Kushner wrote asking–no, demanding–God to cure
AIDS will tear your heart out. Fiercely political, deeply personal, incredibly intelligent,
funny, poignant, hopeful, and immensely spiritual, Kushner's work is a bright shining light.
Like Tony Kushner himself, Mock's film about him is a multifaceted gem that sparkles as it
enlightens on so many levels.
Tony Kushner
Meryl Streep
Marcia Gay Harden |
... Himself
... Herself
... Herself
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World-premiere in January 2006 at the Sundance Film Festival |
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