HPPUB MOVIE REVIEW of A Rumor of Angels

Title: A Rumor of Angels

Release Date: 2001

Nationality and Language: Canada, English

Running time: about 95 minutes

MPAA Rating: PG-13

Distributor and Production Company: MGM, CineTelFilms

Director; Writer: Peter O’Fallon

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Cast: Vanessa Redgrave, Trevor Morgan, Ron Livingston, Ray Liotta, Catherine McCornack, George Coe

Technical: Panavision 2.35/1, Digital

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Review: Here is another ambitious-looking independent film with a small but well-experienced cast and intense personal drama. A boy befriends an aging woman who has recorded in a handwritten diary messages she believes she has received from a lighthouse by Morse Code from her dead son, killed in Vietnam. The son has to deal with the accidental death of his mother, and is quite touched by the diary, Are the “angels” bringing the messages in some sense real? This gentle drama never really enters the realm of either religiosity or science fiction.

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