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- 2002
- PG-13
- Cinetel Films
- 1 h 46 m
- 2002
- PG-13
- Cinetel Films
- 1 h 46 m
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).
Directed By: Peter O'Fallon
Written By: Grace Duffie Boylan, James Eric, Jamie Horton, Peter O'Fallon
- 2002
- PG-13
- Cinetel Films
- 1 h 46 m
- 2002
- PG-13
- Cinetel Films
- 1 h 46 m
A Rumor of Angels
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User Score
Mixed or Average
5.5
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).
Directed By: Peter O'Fallon
Written By: Grace Duffie Boylan, James Eric, Jamie Horton, Peter O'Fallon
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Metascore
Generally Unfavorable
Based on 13 Critic Reviews
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15% Positive
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38% Mixed
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46% Negative
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6 Reviews
Metascore
Generally Unfavorable
Based on 13 Critic Reviews
35
15% Positive
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
38% Mixed
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
46% Negative
6 Reviews
6 Reviews
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.
Despite good acting from the entire cast, yarn is a bit dull and predictable, straining too hard to convey its spiritual message.
Were it not for the presence of higher-level acting talent, A Rumor of Angels would have been a banal TV movie.
A Rumor of Angels beats its wings furiously, only to sink back into spiritualist goo.
The pat reconciliations among family members start to pile up like so much driftwood along the beach.
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.
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.
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