Wrestling with Angels:
Playwright Tony Kushner
Directed, Written and Produced
by Freida Lee Mock
98 Minutes

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David Ansen (Newsweek) praises Kushner's "humor, ambition, vision and dazzling braininess" and David Courier (Sundance Festival) writes “one of our greatest living playwrights, Pulitzer and Tony Award winner Tony Kushner (Angels in America, Caroline, or Change, Munich) is a consummate artist and indomitable political activist committed to equality and social justice...watching Marcia Gay Harden as Laura Bush in a scene from Kushner’s new play is worth the price of admission...hearing Meryl Streep read a prayer that Kushner wrote asking – no, demanding God to cure AIDS will tear your heart out. ”

In the film, Tony Kushner takes us from his childhood home 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. Featuring Meryl Streep, Marcia Gay Harden, Tonya Pinkins, Maurice Sendak, George C. Wolfe, Oskar Eustis, Frank Rich and others.

Official Selection Sundance
Winner Seattle International Film Festival
Winner Cleveland International Film Festival

“For students, theatergoers, and any engaged citizen, Mock’s Wrestling with Angels, like a new Kushner play, is not to be missed. The film is a bracing reminder of the unique – and essential – ways in which the stage can frame the major social-political questions of a complex era.”
Professor James Fisher,
Theater Dept., University of North Carolina and
author of The Theater of Tony Kushner

“Director Freida Mock’s film offers a comprehensive and brilliantly fashioned study of the life and work of Tony Kushner. It should be included in any course on contemporary and post-modern theater.”
Professor Carl Weber, Theater Dept., Stanford University

“Entertaining, intimate...(Kushner) has a gift for being very funny and serious at the same time.”
- Stephen Holden, New York Times

“Absolutely spectacular...an amazing film!”
- Nan Noakar, Park City Record

“Energetic and engrossing!”
- Eric Grode, The New York Sun

“Blisteringly hilarious! Moving...an exquisite work!”
- Paul Fischer, Dark Horizons

“Kushner is so charming that it would be easy to overlook (that) his plays are about things that matter. With his brains, passion and optimism, he’s quite a package.”
- Jay Carr, AMNY

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