A Rumor of Angels

Name: A Rumor of Angels
Genre: Drama
Released: February 1, 2002
Rating: 35
Cast: Ray Liotta, Vanessa Redgrave

2002

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Cinetel Films | Release Date: February 1, 2002 | PG-13

Starring: Ray Liotta, Vanessa Redgrave

Summary: A young boy (Morgan) spending the summer in Maine finds help in dealing with his mother's tragic death through his friendship with an eccentric widow neighbor (Redgrave).

Director: Peter O'Fallon

Genre(s): Drama

Rating: PG-13

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New Times (L.A.) Gregory Weinkauf

The extra-short length is puzzling -- about half an hour has been lopped off the length of the original Canadian release -- but what remains feels whole and wholly satisfying, a rare, successful merging of the obvious and the haunting. Read full review

Claudia Puig

An uplifting but occasionally treacly tale of transcendent grief, opted to venture where angels go fearlessly. Read full review

Jami Bernard

With its mystical mumbo jumbo and even a helpful beam of celestial light in one scene, A Rumor of Angels is a kind of cinematic comfort food for an undemanding audience. Read full review

Paul Malcolm

A Rumor of Angels beats its wings furiously, only to sink back into spiritualist goo. Read full review

Stephen Holden

As A Rumor of Angels reveals itself to be a sudsy tub of supernatural hokum, not even Ms. Redgrave's noblest efforts can redeem it from hopeless sentimentality. Read full review

John Anderson

The emotional aspects of the story are treated with such a heavy hand, the supernatural aspects are so vague and uninvolving, and the group dynamic is so unconvincing that one can't quite imagine why anybody bothered. Read full review

Lisa Schwarzbaum

Director Peter O'Fallon fires his biggest gun: a blast of Mozart's Ave Verum Corpus, truly heavenly music wasted on a handful of dust. Read full review

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MonicaS.

May 19, 2007

Outstanding, beautiful, goes right to the heart!

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maryannob

Oct 7, 2012

I think critics are only looking for the edgier type of movies and can't see the art in making a movie that is sentimental...but what is wrong with sentimentality? I thoroughly enjoyed this movie and others of this nature as a way to turn off my brain distracted by all the loud, violent andI think critics are only looking for the edgier type of movies and can't see the art in making a movie that is sentimental...but what is wrong with sentimentality? I thoroughly enjoyed this movie and others of this nature as a way to turn off my brain distracted by all the loud, violent and sexy types or the horror genre, maybe because I am older, but I have always loved these types and believe they have a place in the world of cine. Vanessa shines in this and I am so glad she is still around to make these movies.… Expand

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