Wrestling with Angels: Playwright Tony Kushner (2006)

A documentary on the personal and political life of Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, Tony Kushner. The film begins in 2001, when Kushner was mounting the production of his play "Homebody/Kabul" and runs through 2004, as he worked on John Kerry's presidential campaign, got married to Mark Harris, worked with Maurice Sendak, and opened the Broadway musical "Caroline, or Change."

Freida Lee Mock

Director

Meryl Streep

as Self

Mary-Louise Parker

as Harper Pitt

Phillip Koch

Actor

Marcia Gay Harden

as Self

Emma Thompson

as The Angel of America

Mike Nichols

as Self

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