Wrestling with Angels: Playwright Tony Kushner
Studio/Distributor
Balcony Releasing
Director
Freida Lee Mock
Screenwriter(s)
Freida Lee Mock
Cast
Tony Kushner, Maurice Sendak, Marcia Gay Harden, Meryl Streep, Tonya Pinkins, Frank Rich
Release Date: October 4, 2006
Release: Limited - NY
Synopsis: Pulitzer and Tony Award-winning playwright Tony Kushner (Angels in America; Caroline, or Change; Homebody/Kabul; co-writer, Munich) is one of America’s most prodigiously talented and politically engaged artists. In this entertaining portrait from Academy Award-winning director Freida Lee Mock (Maya Lin: A Strong Clear Vision), Kushner takes us on a trip through his life and times, from his Jewish boyhood in small-town Louisiana to his development as a writer, politically active gay man, and endlessly quotable globe-trotting force for a more literate and compassionate universe.
Mock follows the now-50-year-old writer from just after 9/11 to the 2004 presidential election, capturing the fierce moral responsibility that pervades his work as well as the unique dynamics of his creative process. We go behind the scenes of early rehearsals and performances of his musical Caroline, or Change and the children’s Holocaust opera Brundibar; visit with Mike Nichols on the set of HBO’s Angels in America; and make a trip to Kushner’s hometown.
Genre: Documentary
MPAA Rating: Not Rated
Offical Site: Wrestling with Angels: Playwright Tony Kushner
Movie Poster: Allposters
DVD/Blu-ray: Amazon
Balcony Releasing
Director
Freida Lee Mock
Screenwriter(s)
Freida Lee Mock
Cast
Tony Kushner, Maurice Sendak, Marcia Gay Harden, Meryl Streep, Tonya Pinkins, Frank Rich
Release Date: October 4, 2006
Release: Limited - NY
Synopsis: Pulitzer and Tony Award-winning playwright Tony Kushner (Angels in America; Caroline, or Change; Homebody/Kabul; co-writer, Munich) is one of America’s most prodigiously talented and politically engaged artists. In this entertaining portrait from Academy Award-winning director Freida Lee Mock (Maya Lin: A Strong Clear Vision), Kushner takes us on a trip through his life and times, from his Jewish boyhood in small-town Louisiana to his development as a writer, politically active gay man, and endlessly quotable globe-trotting force for a more literate and compassionate universe.
Mock follows the now-50-year-old writer from just after 9/11 to the 2004 presidential election, capturing the fierce moral responsibility that pervades his work as well as the unique dynamics of his creative process. We go behind the scenes of early rehearsals and performances of his musical Caroline, or Change and the children’s Holocaust opera Brundibar; visit with Mike Nichols on the set of HBO’s Angels in America; and make a trip to Kushner’s hometown.
Genre: Documentary
MPAA Rating: Not Rated
Offical Site: Wrestling with Angels: Playwright Tony Kushner
Movie Poster: Allposters
DVD/Blu-ray: Amazon
