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Citizen Cohn

As lawyer and power broker Roy Cohn lies dying of AIDS in a private hospital room, ghosts from his past visit him as he reflects on his life and loves.

In the 1950s, the ambitious and unscrupulous Jewish prosecutor Roy M. Cohn convinces Senator Joseph McCarthy to be his chief counsel in his hunting against communists. With his powerful and intimidating tactics, the arrogant Cohn destroys both careers and lives and becomes a Jew hunting Jews and a gay hunting gays. In 1986, he was disbarred by the Appellate Division of the New York State Supreme Court for unethical and unprofessional conduct, and died five weeks later of AIDS in a hospital in Bethesda, Maryland.

Info about Citizen Cohn

Studio(s): HBO Films

Originally Released: United States, Aug 22, 1992

Production Country: United States

Genres:Drama, Biography