Angela
by Kantz, Rebecca Miller
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Actor: Chris Eckles, Clint Jung, Jacqueline Jin, Lou Klein, Mae HiDirector: Kantz, Rebecca Miller
Brand: New Video
Producer: Grayce Wey
Writer: Grayce Wey
Writer: Rebecca Miller
Producer: Ammar Kubba
Producer: Demetria Owens
Producer: Demi Owens
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo; English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo
Format: Color, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 99 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2002-11-26
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: New Video Group
Movie Reviews of Angela
Movie Review: A Child's View of a Parent's Mental Illness
Summary: 5 Stars
There are two issues in this movie. The first is of a couple of little girls growing up with a mentally ill mother. Angela, in her immaturity, feels at least a bit responsible for her mother's situation. She wants to be especially good, feeling that it is her 'badness' that keeps her mother sick. This is very common. One girl our family has grown to love as one of our own daughters understood that it was after her mother got pregnant with her the schizophrenia manifested itself in her mother. So, when she was little, she felt she caused it to happen.
Angela has some idea of God and satan, Heaven and hell, but it is as a ten-year-old might have understood it. It would have been nice to see where she had gotten such ideas. Still, Angela wants very much to be a good person, and keep her little sister, Ellie, good. However, she is still a little girl. Parents could show this film to their own children, watching together, and use it to discuss the family beliefs regarding these topics. It is a movie one won't soon forget, and one that will leave you thinking about it for some time after seeing it.
This is a very intense movie (and there is one rather explicit sex scene). Still, my nine-year-old granddaughter handled it very well (we fast-forwarded through the short sex scene). I presented the story to her as one example of what might cause some kids to act in ways that her 'in group' does not think is 'cool.' We had a good discussion about how she should treat such kids because the ones she may meet might be going through the same type of thing, though the specifics may be different, as Angela in their home. If a parent knows their child is dealing with such a friend, this movie would be a great way to help them open up about how they feel about the 'strange' kid, and for parents to teach understanding and even compassion for him or her. This is a very penetrating movie.
Summary of Angela
From award winning director Rebecca Miller comes this poignant coming-of-age story about a young girl caught between the harsh realities of a difficult family life and the fantasy world she escapes to inside her head. Winner of the Grand Jury Prize at SunThis 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 manic 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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