Great Movie
Added 4/21/2008
A Rumor of Angels is a great family movie that holds your interest from the start. Wonderful cast compliments the film and the location makes you want to live there.
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Great Movie says some important things
Added 4/21/2008
This is a great movie about a young boy James who is trying to cope with his mother's death when he was younger in a car accident. He meets Maddie played by Vanessa Redgrave whom he forms a friendship with. She has had a loss of her own and through their relationship they I think heal each other and form a lasting bond. The other characters in the movie Uncle Charlie, James father, and stepmother Mary are all good supporting characters and really show the communication problems and how the family is struggling. The ending is kind of heartwarming, sad, and at the same time kind of unbelievable. At the end Maddie dies but after she sends a special message to James. I wanted them to go on being friends but I think I can see what kind of message the director was trying to send about love,grief, and death. It is a tearjerker! But it is a great movie with wonderful actors.
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Wonderful for the whole family.
Added 1/19/2008
This is a wonderful movie. You will laugh, cry, and laugh/cry at the same time. It is one I can watch over and over! I hope you enjoy it as much as I do.
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Like a ninny
Added 7/5/2007
40 year old guy here. I cried like a ninny through about 80% of this movie. That tops Schindler's List for me ... AND I'M JEWISH!
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A very pleasant surprise.
Added 5/27/2007
A Rumor of Angels (Peter O'Fallon, 2000)
What a surprising little film this was. I went into it knowing nothing about it other than that it features the winsome Catherine McCormack, with whom I am infatuated beyond all reason, and came out of it realizing I'd been hopelessly maipulated, and didn't care a whit.
The story revolves around a widow, Maddy Bennett (Vanessa Redgrave), and a young boy, James Neubauer (The Prizewinner of Defiance, Ohio's Trevor Morgan). James, whose father Nathan (Ray Liotta) is distant, and who hates his stepmother (McCormack), forms an unlikely solidarity with the old woman after he trespasses on her property and gets scared off when she shoots rock salt at him. The two of them form a friendship fueled by James' fascination with Maddy's stories of her son, who died in the Vietnam war, and who Maddy is convinced sent her Morse code signals after his death telling her that he was at peace and looking down on her from Heaven. His parents, of course, are not thrilled.
This is not a blockbuster by any standards; it's small, quiet, reflective. As such, it was thoroughly overlooked at the box office, playing on just seven screens and grossing something in the vicinity of thirty-one thousand dollars during its two-week run. Thus, chances are you missed it the first time round. Do yourself a favor and rediscover this little gem. *** ½
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Great Movie
Added 4/21/2008
A Rumor of Angels is a great family movie that holds your interest from the start. Wonderful cast compliments the film and the location makes you want to live there.
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Great Movie says some important things
Added 4/21/2008
This is a great movie about a young boy James who is trying to cope with his mother's death when he was younger in a car accident. He meets Maddie played by Vanessa Redgrave whom he forms a friendship with. She has had a loss of her own and through their relationship they I think heal each other and form a lasting bond. The other characters in the movie Uncle Charlie, James father, and stepmother Mary are all good supporting characters and really show the communication problems and how the family is struggling. The ending is kind of heartwarming, sad, and at the same time kind of unbelievable. At the end Maddie dies but after she sends a special message to James. I wanted them to go on being friends but I think I can see what kind of message the director was trying to send about love,grief, and death. It is a tearjerker! But it is a great movie with wonderful actors.
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Wonderful for the whole family.
Added 1/19/2008
This is a wonderful movie. You will laugh, cry, and laugh/cry at the same time. It is one I can watch over and over! I hope you enjoy it as much as I do.
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