Anna Levine, Charlotte Eve Blythe, Frances Conroy

This eerily beautiful film stars Miranda Stuart Rhyne as Angela, a young girl trying to cope with her family's falling apart. Her mother (Anna Thomson) has drastic mood shifts that bring her from mani...( read more  read more... )c happiness to utter misery. Her father (John Ventimiglia) tries to hold everyone together, but Mae's vacillations are becoming more than he can manage. Adrift, Angela and her little sister concoct magical rituals and have visions of fallen angels and the Virgin Mary; reading signs in the way a towel falls off a chair or a tool falls off a truck, they set off to find their way to heaven. Angela succeeds because of writer-director Rebecca Miller's keen understanding of childhood, when imagination and reality are fluid and fantasies can exert a potent influence over a child's life. An unsettling and affecting movie, with an excellent performance by Rhyne. --Bret Fetzer

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Unrated, 99 min.

Directed by: Rebecca Miller

Release Date: January 1, 1995

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  • June 23, 2007
    Strange, powerful and compelling film. Definetly one you have to watch more then once to full comprehend it.
  • May 20, 2007
    the acting and cast were done well but i just didnt understand what it was about
  • May 6, 2007
    fairly obscure title. has some really dark themes reunning through it. The ending - well I didn't see it coming I have to admit. The 2 child actors are both pretty good. The direction is not bad but the boom mike becomes really annoying and it's little things like that, and the f...( read more)act the film does not delve as deeply into the troubled waters it stirs as it should, ultimately lets the viewer down.
  • April 23, 2007
    tells the story of 2 children and their manic depressive mother,the children believe if they rid themselves of all sin &evil their mother will be cured.Angela the eldest becomes obsessed with the concept of sin and moves further away from reality,and in to the world of her imagin...( read more)ation,an old movie but deffinately one to watch.
  • January 21, 2007
    wanna see it i cant wAIT LOL !!!
  • January 13, 2007
    i saw this on tv and it made me think. the lil kids do a gerat job. its all together a graet movie.
  • June 17, 2006
    Completely taken by suprise by this (I picked it up for 99p with a cover plugging Vincent Gallo, who's in it for about 2 minutes).

    Miranda Stuart Rhyne is quite brilliant as Angela and looking on IMDB, I can only hope she returns to the craft. Miller also deserves special credi...( read more)t for her deft yet delicate storytelling.

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