Angela (1995)

User Rating:

6.2/10   

Director:

Rebecca Miller

Writer:

Rebecca Miller (writer)

Genre:

Drama

Plot:

A ten year old girl named Angela leads her six year old sister, Ellie, through various regimens of 'purification'...

Plot Keywords:

Child Nudity | Little Girl | Mental Illness | Religious Obsession | Bathtub Scene

Awards:

4 wins & 1 nomination

Cast

Miranda Stuart Rhyne	...	Angela
Charlotte Eve Blythe	...	Ellie (as Charlotte Blythe)
Anna Levine	...	Mae (as Anna Thomson)
John Ventimiglia	...	Andrew
Ruth Maleczech	...	Sleepwalker
Vincent Gallo	...	Preacher
Garrett Bemer	...	Tom
Peter Facinelli	...	Lucifer
Hynden Walch	...	Darlene (as Hynden Walsh)
Henry Stram	...	Man at Fair
Sara Caitlin Hall	...	Anne
Frances Conroy	...	Anne's Mother (as Francis Conroy)
Gerard Lyons III	...	Anne's Father
Rodger L. Phillips	...	Frank
Io Tillett Wright	...	Sam

Runtime:

99 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Sound Mix:

Stereo

Certification:

UK:15

Company:

Tree Farm Productions

Quotes:

[Angela is explaining to Ellie all about sex using the horse as an example]
Angela: See this?
Ellie: Yeah.
Angela: That's exactly what men have. They stick it in the women. I've seen mom and dad do it. It looks like it hurts.
Ellie: Why do they do it then?
Angela: It's a rule. You have to.
Ellie: I don't wanna do it.
Angela: Well if you don't do it by the time you're 21 you start getting smaller.
Ellie: How come?
Angela: Cuz there's certain vitamins and I don't know but I've seen people like that. They're mom's age and they're as small as you.
[...]

Movie Connections:

References Mogambo (1953)

Soundtrack:

Angel Of Mercy

A LITTLE GIRL'S 400 BLOWS

ANGELA whisks the viewer away into the nightmare of a young girl threatened with the loss of her very world through the crumbling psychology of her mother. Rebecca Miller's film brings thoroughly to bloom the essence of a dangerous imagination which plays out like a Greek tragedy in the lives of Angela and her little sister on a quest to save themselves from the devil. The devil himself white as chalk and winged appears to warn them that he soon will claim the family. A helpless father cannot bind together the broken bridges and fallen stars of his wife, a Marilyn Monroe-like singer who can only perpetuate the failures of her life, spreading them like termites to envelope any stability her family could muster. It seems then to ANGELA that she in her innocence must bear that burden and find by way of a stray horse a black cat who she believes give her messages to where she can find the holy grail of her family's salvation, and this to a desperate end.