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6.3/10
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Rebecca Miller's riveting drama examines how two sisters cope with their mother's mental illness.Rebecca Miller's riveting drama examines how two sisters cope with their mother's mental illness.Rebecca Miller's riveting drama examines how two sisters cope with their mother's mental illness.
- Awards
- 4 wins & 1 nomination
Miranda Rhyne
- Angela
- (as Miranda Stuart Rhyne)
Charlotte Eve Blythe
- Ellie
- (as Charlotte Blythe)
Caitlin Hall
- Anne
- (as Sara Caitlin Hall)
Frances Conroy
- Anne's Mother
- (as Francis Conroy)
Rodger Phillips
- Frank
- (as Rodger L. Phillips)
- Director
- Writer
- All cast & crew
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- TriviaAt the end of the movie, Angela is washed away in another cleansing ritual. Ellie is left standing alone. She takes the same pose from the mud covered scene and rises out of the water, indicating to the viewer that she has been cleansed and will not be affected by her mother's genetic condition.
- GoofsBoom mic visible. Several times throughout the film, a boom mic (and even part of the boom) is VERY clearly visible, mostly in outdoor scenes when the boom was more necessary. This is a masking problem on an early DVD release, and is probably present on any VHS release as well (the DVD is likely transferred from the VHS). The movie was filmed in academy ratio with the intent to mask it to widescreen, in which it was shown in theaters. When telecined to VHS/DVD for home use to watch on your TV set, or perhaps even for TV broadcast, it wasn't masked: black bars were not placed over the top and bottom to make it letterboxed for widescreen. This was commonly done in Pan&Scan versions of many theatrical movies for TV broadcast and VHS release so you could get the whole screen without those annoying black bars which would give you a smaller amount of image to squint at. Unfortunately, with the whole screen image you also get portions of the image that were not meant to be seen, such as boom mics and track lights on the top and cables and camera dolly tracks and crew-members feet on the bottom. Older DVD releases of many movies just copied the full-screen without remasking it, which would require a whole new telecine transfer from the original film source. Even some newer DVD releases INCORRECTLY masked some movies, as the bars either weren't covering enough or were disproportional (covering too much on top and too little on bottom or vice-versa), since the widescreen aspect ratio varies and WHERE you put the masks can vary in a single movie. This is a big controversy, and happens more frequently than you might think; see the 3-DVD release of the Back To The Future trilogy for a famous example of improper masking. Pretty much, whenever you see boom mics visible, it is almost always a masking problem on a video release (TV broadcast or VHS or DVD transfer); it is not the fault of the director or cinematographer or editor.
- Quotes
[Angela tackles the boy who threw a doll at her sister, Ellie]
Angela: You could've killed my sister!
[the boy doesn't say anything, so she turns to Ellie]
Angela: Sit on his head.
[Ellie sits on the boy's head]
Tom: Get the kid away from me!
Angela: Apologize or she'll fart!
Tom: Sorry...
Angela: Say, I'm very, very, sorry, Ellie and I love your smile.
Tom: I'm very, very, sorry, Ellie and I love your smile.
Angela: Okay, Ellie. Take it away.
[Ellie gets up]
- ConnectionsReferenced in Wear (2015)
Featured review
Mental Illness and Religious Paranoia
The ten year-old Angela (Miranda Stuart Rhyne) and her little sister Ellie (Charlotte Blythe) move to an old house in the countryside with her parents Mae (Anna Thomson) and Andrew (John Ventimiglia). Their mother has mental illness and has just left an institution and her husband tries to keep the dysfunctional family together. Angela is an imaginative disturbed girl that might have inherited the illness of her mother and is obsessed by purification to get rid of her sins; and has visions of the fallen angel Lucifer and the Virgin Mary. She leads her little sister in her paranoia and uses a circle of toys and dolls to protect them against evil. They have a crazy neighbor that Angela believes is an angel and she asks the woman how to find the way to heaven. When Mae returns to the institution, Angela becomes uncontrollable in her quest to heaven.
"Angela" is a weird and bizarre film about mental illness and religious paranoia. Angela seems to have inherited the mental disorder of her mother, having vision of Lucifer and Virgin Mary, and fantasizing purification processes to cleanse the sins to reach heaven. The worst is that she drags her little sister in her fantasy. The tragic conclusion is expected. It is impressive the number of times that the microphone is visible. My vote is six.
Title (Brazil): 'Angela: Nas Asas da Imaginação' ("Angela: In the Wings of the Imagination")
"Angela" is a weird and bizarre film about mental illness and religious paranoia. Angela seems to have inherited the mental disorder of her mother, having vision of Lucifer and Virgin Mary, and fantasizing purification processes to cleanse the sins to reach heaven. The worst is that she drags her little sister in her fantasy. The tragic conclusion is expected. It is impressive the number of times that the microphone is visible. My vote is six.
Title (Brazil): 'Angela: Nas Asas da Imaginação' ("Angela: In the Wings of the Imagination")
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