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Angela

1996 · 102 min

A hushed, unsettling plunge into a child's private mythology, beautiful and disturbing, that lingers like a half-remembered dream.

Directed by: Rebecca Miller
Genres: Drama
Starring: Miranda Rhyne, Charlotte Eve Blythe, Anna Thomson

Overview: A ten year old girl named Angela leads her six year old sister, Ellie, through various regimens of 'purification' in an attempt to rid themselves of their evil, which she believes to be the cause of their mother's mental illness. Precocious, to say the least, Angela has visions of Lucifer coming to take her and her sister away, and one of her remedies for this is for them to remain within a circle of their dolls and toys until they see a vision of the virgin Mary come to them. But such thinking can only lead to an ending befitting of her own mental state.

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Directed by: Rebecca Miller
Genres: Drama
Starring: Miranda Rhyne, Charlotte Eve Blythe, Anna Thomson

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Tone: darkstrength 3 of 3
melancholicstrength 2 of 3
eeriestrength 2 of 3
earneststrength 2 of 3
Pacing: slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: grief
family
madness
faith
coming-of-age
Places: small town
countryside
home
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: nonlinear
Content intensity: Gore none
Language mild
Violence mild
Sex mild

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Scales, 0 to 10
Scale	Value	0 to 10
Action	1
Horror	5
Humour	2
Realism	7
Romance	1
Tension	6
Darkness	8
Complexity	7
Emotional weight	9

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