Title: The Normal Heart
Content: Craig Donner ; Mickey Marcus ; Ned Weeks ; Dr. Emma Brookner ; Bruce Niles ; Felix Turner ; Ben Weeks ; Tommy Boatwright ; Hiram Keebler 
Title: The Normal Heart (film)
Content:  The Normal Heart is a 2014 American television drama film directed by Ryan Murphy and written by Larry Kramer, based on his 1985 play of the same name. The film stars Mark Ruffalo, Matt Bomer, Taylor Kitsch, Jim Parsons, Alfred Molina, Joe Mantello, Jonathan Groff, and Julia Roberts. The film depicts the rise of the HIV-AIDS crisis in New York City between 1981 and 1984, as seen through the eyes of writer/activist Ned Weeks (Ruffalo), the founder of a prominent HIV advocacy group. Weeks prefers public confrontations to the calmer, more private strategies favored by his associates, friends, and closeted lover Felix Turner (Bomer). Their differences of opinion lead to arguments that threaten to undermine their shared goals. It was released on DVD and Blu-ray on August 26, 2014.
Title: The Normal Heart (film)
Content:  Stone awarded the film with a 3.5/4 and praised the film, "Written, directed and acted with a passion that radiates off the screen, The Normal Heart is drama at its most incendiary, a blunt instrument that is also poetic and profound. As gay men in crisis, Taylor Kitsch, Jim Parsons and Joe Mantello (who played Ned onstage) all excel. But it's Kramer, still raging over what's not being done, who tears at your heart." Ellen Gray of the Philadelphia Daily News commended "And though the supporting cast members are all good (Parsons particularly so), it's Kramer's fury, channeled through Ruffalo's manic energy as the writer's alter-ego Ned Weeks, that keeps The Normal Heart beating and preserves 
Title: The Normal Heart (film)
Content:  The Normal Heart debuted on HBO on May 25, 2014 after an earlier theatrical screening at the Inside Out Film and Video Festival in Toronto, Ontario, Canada on May 23 2014.
Title: The Normal Heart
Content:  Theatre Company (she had been slated to be in the film). It starred Kevin Bacon, John Turturro, Harry Hamlin, D.W. Moffett, Tony Roberts, David Drake, Kevin Geer, Eric Bogosian, Jonathan Hadary and Stockard Channing as Emma Brookner. Kramer wrote a sequel about Ned Weeks in 1992, The Destiny of Me. The Broadway premiere of The Normal Heart began on April 19, 2011, for a limited 12-week engagement at the Golden Theatre. This production used elements employed in a staged reading, directed by Joel Grey, held in October 2010. The cast featured Joe Mantello as Ned, Ellen Barkin (making her Broadway debut) 
Title: The Normal Heart
Content:  Produced by Joseph Papp and directed by Michael Lindsay-Hogg, the play opened Off-Broadway at The Public Theater on April 21, 1985, and ran for 294 performances. The original cast included Brad Davis as Ned and D. W. Moffett as Felix, with David Allen Brooks as Bruce Niles and Concetta Tomei as Dr. Emma Brookner (based on Linda Laubenstein, M.D.). Joel Grey replaced Davis later in the run. During the original 1985 production, the set was very simple with a small amount of furniture and the set walls consisted of white-washed plywood. All along these walls and even the theatre walls, there were 
Title: The Normal Heart
Content:  The Normal Heart received its Polish premiere in 1987 at the Polish Theatre in Poznań where it was directed by Grzegorz Mrówczyński. The Polish cast included Mariusz Puchalski as Ned Weeks and Mariusz Sabiniewicz as Tommy Boatwright, with Andrzej Szczytko as Bruce Niles and Irena Grzonka as Dr. Emma Brookner. The television adaptation débuted on the TVP channel on 4 May 1989, one month before the first free election in the country since 1928.
Title: The Normal Heart (film)
Content:  face challenges finding much purchase at the modern-day multiplex. The result is a movie, for mostly better and sometimes worse, that wears its heart on its sleeve." Maureen Ryan of The Huffington Post also criticized Murphy's direction, writing: "But if you do watch the film, just be aware that every few minutes you may wish that someone — anyone — other than Murphy had directed it. Murphy is a self-indulgent director and not particularly rigorous or disciplined. He serves his own muse, not necessarily the needs of the material, and though it's a classic, Kramer's play is also unwieldy and outright clumsy at time." TVLine named Bomer the "Performer of the Week" for his performance.
Title: The Normal Heart (film)
Content:  In August 2011, Ryan Murphy said in an interview with Deadline Hollywood that he had optioned The Normal Heart and intended to produce the film version, starring Mark Ruffalo "and maybe Julia Roberts". The Hollywood Reporter confirmed the film news in January 2012, adding Alec Baldwin, Matt Bomer, and Jim Parsons to the previously announced cast. In March 2013, Taylor Kitsch joined the cast. In April 2013, the casting of actors Jonathan Groff and Joe Mantello was announced. In May 2013, it was announced that Alfred Molina would be replacing Alec Baldwin. Both Parsons and Mantello had starred in the 2011 Broadway revival, although Parsons was the only actor to reprise his role. Murphy stated that he created this film, despite the derivative play being made in the 1980s, due to fears that people born after the 1980s AIDS crisis would not remember its lessons.
Title: The Normal Heart (film)
Content: Mark Ruffalo as Alexander "Ned" Weeks (alter ego for Larry Kramer) ; Ruffalo, who had a childhood friend who struggled with his homosexuality, first watched The Normal Heart play in 1986. When Ruffalo was initially offered the part of Ned in the film, he argued that a gay actor should have the role, but accepted it when Murphy insisted. ; Matt Bomer as Felix Turner ; Taylor Kitsch as Bruce Niles (based on Paul Popham) ; Jim Parsons as Tommy Boatwright (based on Rodger McFarlane) ; Alfred Molina as Ben Weeks (based on Arthur Kramer) ; Julia Roberts as Dr. Emma Brookner (based on Dr. Linda Laubenstein) ; Joe Mantello as Michael R. "Mickey" Marcus ; BD Wong as Buzzy ; Jonathan Groff as Craig Donner ; Stephen Spinella as Sanford ; Finn Wittrock as Albert ; Denis O'Hare as Hiram Keebler ; Corey Stoll as John Bruno ; Danielle Ferland as Estelle ; Frank De Julio as Nick ; Adam B. Shapiro as Bella 

Question: Who was the screenwriter for The Normal Heart?
Answer: Larry Kramer.
Laurence David Kramer.