Hollywood Reporter
The Normal Heart manages to work both sides of the issue - the anger at inaction and those complicit in turning a blind eye, and the personal toll the disease took.
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The Normal Heart
The Emmy-winning TV movie from Ryan Murphy (American Horror Story) tells the story of gay activists and their allies taking on the nation's sexual politics during the HIV-AIDS crisis in 1980s New York City. Stars Mark Ruffalo, Jim Parsons, Julia Roberts and Matt Bomer (Magic Mike)—all delivering Emmy-nominated performance.
2014Rating: NC-17133 minsUSAHBO Films
DramaTrue Story & BiographyHistorical
The Normal Heart / Reviews
USA Today
You will learn lessons that should not be forgotten about the fear, foolishness, prejudice and intentional blindness...
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Slant Magazine
Flawed but terrifically moving, The Normal Heart is a boldly corporeal expression of gay political consciousness.
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Boston Globe
Joins the best of the genre - Longtime Companion, Parting Glances, An Early Frost, Philadelphia, the shattering documentary Silverlake Life - as a monument to the lives lost.
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Time Magazine
Some 30 years later, this movie-strident, passionate, frenetic, and aching-is a reminder, as Memorial Day weekend begins the summer, of all those empty spots the plague left on the beach.
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Wall Street Journal
In a film directed by Ryan Murphy and with strong performances, including those by Mr. Ruffalo, Ms. Roberts, Matt Bomer, Jim Parsons and Alfred Molina, Mr. Mantello's anguished lament may be the most haunting.
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We Got This Covered
The Normal Heart is not as powerful as Kramer's incendiary play, but it is still too passionate and potently acted to miss.
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Vulture
If anger and suffering were all there were to The Normal Heart, watching it would be torture. Luckily, it has heart to match its guts.
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