Angela

1995

1h 45m

Drama

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60%

5 Reviews

Tomatometer

73%

500+ Ratings

Audience Score

Mae (Anna Thomson), the mother of 10-year-old Angela (Miranda Stuart Rhyne) and 6-year-old Ellie (Charlotte Blythe), is gradually losing her grip on reality. Her caring husband, Andrew (John Ventimiglia), wants his children to have a stable home life, but he has to spend most of his time working to support the family. When Mae is institutionalized, the young girls are left to their own devices, and Angela begins to live in a dark fantasy world where she combats Satan and speaks with God.

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Empire Magazine

Rated: 3/5

Nov 30, 2003

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Alison Macor

Austin Chronicle

Rated: 3/5

Nov 13, 2001

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Marya E. Gates

Cool People Have Feelings, Too. (Substack)

I don’t know what it all means, but I think about this film a lot.

Feb 13, 2024

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Emanuel Levy

EmanuelLevy.Com

Sharply uneven, Miller's debut is a grim, occasionally haunting Southern Gothic tale about mental illness seen from the POV of a young girl whose childhood evokes both dreams and demons; Ellen Kuras deservedly won the Sundance Fest's Cinematography Prize

Rated: C+

Mar 22, 2007

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Christopher Null

Filmcritic.com

Rated: 1.5/5

Nov 13, 2001

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Brilliant little gem!

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

02/23/23

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for all you pedophiles who like it softcore and with a narrative and maybe religion and a bruised girl this is the movie for you! maybe if those three medina guys knew about this movie they could have gotten arrested a few days later :-(

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

01/28/23

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Audience Member

just WONDERFUL. i loved everything.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

02/13/23

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Audience Member

This was a very odd indie film, a heart wrenching depiction of two girls mentally strained by their mothers rapid decline into psychosis. Not a pick-er-upper.

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

01/26/23

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Audience Member

This one has all the ingredients of an almost stereotypically pretentious indie dysfunctional family drama: unrealistically precocious children, annoyingly quirky characters, mental illness, religious criticism, creepy sexual ambiguity involving children, grungy lower middle-class locals, alcoholism, rape, pretentious fantasy dream sequences, and Vincent Gallo. Slow-paced and amateurishly made with some really bad actors, overall just not worth watching.

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

01/28/23

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Audience Member

A really bittersweet movie. See my review here: http://blackskeptic.wordpress.com/2008/05/09/ my-review-of-the-movie-angela-1995/

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

01/18/23

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Rebecca Miller

Director

Anna Thomson

Mae

John Ventimiglia

Andrew

Miranda Rhyne

Angela

Charlotte Blythe

Ellie

Vincent Gallo

Preacher

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Synopsis

Mae (Anna Thomson), the mother of 10-year-old Angela (Miranda Stuart Rhyne) and 6-year-old Ellie (Charlotte Blythe), is gradually losing her grip on reality. Her caring husband, Andrew (John Ventimiglia), wants his children to have a stable home life, but he has to spend most of his time working to support the family. When Mae is institutionalized, the young girls are left to their own devices, and Angela begins to live in a dark fantasy world where she combats Satan and speaks with God.

Director: Rebecca Miller
Genre: Drama
Original Language: English
Release Date (Streaming): Jan 19, 2017
Runtime: 1h 45m

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