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Falling Angels
Director: Scott Smith
Product Group: DVD
Studio: Film Movement
ISBN: B0007LI8R4
EAN: 0616892612421
UPC: 616892612421
DVD
Region Code: 1
Running Time: 109 minutes
Theatrical Release Date: 2005-04-15
Release Date: 2005-01-01
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
SKU: 07090354
Condition: Like New Like New
Comments: Audio CD in like new condition with almost no scratches. Very nice keepsake case with like new artwork.
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Editorial Reviews
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Product Description
Falling Angels is the October selection in the acclaimed Film Movement Series. It is 1969 and seventeen year old Lou Field and her sisters are ready for change. They are tired of enduring kiddie games to humour a Dad desperate for the occasional shred of family normalcy. And the Field house is a place where their Moms semi-catatonic state is the result of a tragic event years before they were born. As the autumn unfolds, life is about to take a turn. This is the year that Lou and her sisters are torn between the lure of the world outside and the claustrophobic world of the Field house that can no longer contain the girls restless adolescence. A story of a calamitous family trying to function, Falling Angels is a story populated by beautiful youthful rebels and ill-equipped parents coping with the draw of a world in turmoil beyond the boundaries of home and a manicured lawn.
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Customer Reviews
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Dysfunctional family from the 60's
Rating  (2)
Date: 2007-01-11
1 out of 7 customers found this reveiw helpful
Wouldn't want to hang out with these people and the prospect of watching the entire movie was unappealing. I turned it off after about 15 minutes because it seemed too pointless.
If I'd known of this family back in the sixties, I would have avoided them.
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Sparkling Comedy from Canada
Rating  (5)
Date: 2006-08-22
9 out of 9 customers found this reveiw helpful
Based on a novel by Barbara Gowdy, Esta Spalding's film version of "Falling Angels" is a spectacular domestic comedy/drama with well-drawn characters and sparkling performances.
Callum Keith Rennie won Canada's Best Supporting Actor Oscar, the Genie, in 1998 for "Last Night." He also played the gay love interest in "Wilby Wonderful" for a guy who kept trying to commit suicide as well as appearing in "The Butterfly Effect." As the father Jim Field, Rennie is full of machismo and is lost in his own world in a household with a wife & three daughters.
Miranda Richardson, twice nominated for Oscars for "Damage" in 1992 & "Tom & Viv" in 1994 plays mother Mary, a depressive alcoholic whose illness is sheltered by her family.
Of the three daughters, Norma, played by Monte Gagne in her first film, is a tomboy who pine panels the basement and receives a toolbelt from her father for Christmas and wears it with pride. When she seems to develop a stronger-than-normal girl-on-girl attraction for the neighbor Stella played by Ingrid Nilson, the audience is not surprised. She uncovers the secret of a brother whose infant death has darkened the marriage of her parents.
However, for all of these fine performances, the film really belongs to the middle daughter Lon played by Katharine Isabelle. Isabelle has appeared in "Freddie vs. Jason" & "Josie & the Pussycats." In this film she shines as the rebellious daughter who is tired of her father's affairs, stomps on his toe and screams at him in anger. She runs her bicycle into the van of hippie classmate Tom, played by Kett Turton from "Firewall," "Gypsy 83" & "Walking Tall." Tom has long talks about Nitzche while Lon keeps turning the subject back to sex. Lon finds sanctuary in the family bomb shelter in the back yard.
The youngest sister is Sandy played by Kristin Adams who was in "Where the Truth Lies" with Kevin Bacon & Colin Firth. She is obsessed with feminine beauty, sewing stylish clothes and makeup applied with perfection. She attracts a 38-year old married shoe salesman Tom, played by Mark McKinney who won his Best Supporting Actor Genie for "Dog Park." Young as she is, Sandy believes it to be true love until Tom unveils his New Year's surprise. Pregnant, Sandy expects a ring & a proposal but winds up with a twin brother in a local motel and an offer for in-family group sex.
The film begins quickly and then moves into flashback until the final frames. Rennie's hilarious reaction to his wife drunk on the roof is to point a shotgun at her in classic black comedy mode. Director Esta Spalding handles the pacing well and does an excellent job with this sparkling comedy from Canada. Bravo!
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