<DIV><P>HBO Films will present <I>Angels in America</I>, directed by Mike Nichols from Tony Kushner&rsquo;s own adaptation of his Tony and Pulitzer Prize-winning play <I>Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes</I>. The remarkable cast features Al Pacino, Meryl Streep, Emma Thompson, Mary Louise Parker, Jeffrey Wright, Justin Kirk, Ben Shenkman, Patrick Wilson, James Cromwell, Michael Gambon and Simon Callow.</P><P><I>Angels in America</I> is one of the most remarkable and celebrated plays of our time. Over 350,000 copies have been sold in paperback since their original publication in 1993.</P><P><B>Praise for the play:</B></P><P>"Angels in America is the broadest, deepest, most searching American play of our time."&mdash;Jack Kroll, <I>Newsweek</I></P><P>"A vast, miraculous play . . . provocative, witty and deeply upsetting . . . a searching and radical rethinking of Ameri-can political drama."&mdash;Frank Rich, <I>The New York Times</I></P><P>"Something rare, dangerous and harrowing&hellip;a roman candle hurled into a drawing room . . . "&mdash;Nicholas de Jongh, <I>London Evening Standard</I></P><P>"Playful and profound, extravagantly theatrical and deeply spiritual, witty, and compassionate, furious and incredibly smart . . . It&rsquo;s impossible to imagine anyone captivated by the beginning not wanting&mdash;needing&mdash;to go back for the end."&mdash;Linda Winer, <I>Newsday</I></P><P>"An enormously impressive work of the imagination and intellect, a towering example of what theatre stretched to its full potential can achieve."&mdash;Clifford A. Ridley, <I>Philadelphia Inquirer</I></P><P>"Perestroika is a masterpiece."&mdash;John Lahr, <I>New Yorker</I></P></DIV>