TY - ADVS AU - Bomer,Matthew AU - De Julio,Frank AU - Ferguson,Scott AU - Groff,Jonathan AU - Kitsch,Taylor AU - Kramer,Larry AU - Molina,Alfred AU - Murphy,Ryan AU - Parsons,Jim AU - Roberts,Julia AU - Ruffalo,Mark AU - Kramer,Larry ED - Blumhouse Productions ED - HBO Films ED - HBO Home Entertainment (Firm) ED - Home Box Office (Firm) ED - Plan B Entertainment ED - Ryan Murphy Productions ED - Warner Home Video (Firm) TI - The normal heart PY - 2014///] CY - [New York, NY] PB - Home Box Office KW - AIDS (Disease) KW - Drama KW - Patients KW - Gay activists KW - Gay men KW - Gay theater KW - New York (State) KW - New York KW - Homosexuality KW - Theater KW - Fiction films KW - lcgft KW - Film adaptations KW - Made-for-TV movies KW - Video recordings for the hearing impaired N1 - "HBO Home Entertainment."; Based on the play of the same name by Larry Kramer; Originally broadcast on television by HBO as a made-for-TV movie in 2014; Special feature: How to Start a War: Behind-the-scenes look at the true story that inspired the film, featuring interviews with Julia Roberts, Mark Ruffalo, Larry Kramer, and more; Music, Cliff Martinez ; editor, Adam Penn ; production designer, Shane Valentino ; director of photography, Danny Moder; Julia Roberts, Mark Ruffalo, Jonathan Groff, Jim Parsons, Matt Bomer, Taylor Kitsch, Frank De Julio, Alfred Molina; TV rating: TV-MA N2 - This HBO Films drama tells the dramatic, poignant and often-exasperating story of the early days of the HIV-AIDS crisis in New York City in the early 1980s, taking an unflinching look at the nation's sexual politics as gay activists and their allies in the medical community fight to expose the truth about the burgeoning epidemic to a city and nation in denial. This film boasts an all-star cast, including Oscar nominee Mark Ruffalo, Oscar winner Julia Roberts, Matt Bomer, Taylor Kitsch, Alfred Molina and three time Emmy winner Jim Parsons. "The Normal Heart" is directed by Emmy winner Ryan Murphy and written by Oscar nominee Larry Kramer, adapting his groundbreaking, Tony Award-winning play of the same name ER -