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  • 2008
  • R
  • Vivendi Entertainment
  • 1 h 56 m
  • 2008
  • R
  • Vivendi Entertainment
  • 1 h 56 m

Summary Feisty firecracker Hagar Shipley has lived an unconventional life putting her at odds with family and friends. With her life nearly behind her, she sets out in search of a way to reconcile herself to her turbulent past. Based on the best selling novel by Margaret Laurence. [Vivendi Entertainment]

Directed By: Kari Skogland

Written By: Margaret Laurence, Kari Skogland

  • 2008
  • R
  • Vivendi Entertainment
  • 1 h 56 m
  • 2008
  • R
  • Vivendi Entertainment
  • 1 h 56 m

The Stone Angel

Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 6 Critic Reviews
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Summary Feisty firecracker Hagar Shipley has lived an unconventional life putting her at odds with family and friends. With her life nearly behind her, she sets out in search of a way to reconcile herself to her turbulent past. Based on the best selling novel by Margaret Laurence. [Vivendi Entertainment]

Directed By: Kari Skogland

Written By: Margaret Laurence, Kari Skogland

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Mixed or Average Based on 6 Critic Reviews
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17% Positive
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83% Mixed
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Mixed or Average Based on 6 Critic Reviews
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83% Mixed
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Prolific helmer Kari Skogland draws a fiery performance from vet Burstyn and a beguiling one from Christine Horne as the young Hagar. Yet the book's sheer "Giant"-like scope necessitates generational cross-cutting that's both rushed and cluttered; pic would have have been better served as a more leisurely miniseries.
By Eddie Cockrell FULL REVIEW
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Writer-director Kari Skogland adapts a beloved Canadian novel gracefully and with plenty of spunk, the same way its main character moves through the world from cradle to grave.
By Joe Neumaier FULL REVIEW
60
Burstyn gets to use her full bag of tricks to bring this crabby, hard-knocks survivor to life. Though she's aged 15 unflattering years, forced into awful old lady clothes and her character teeters on unsympathetic, the actress manages a rich, vanity-free performance, perhaps her best since "Requiem for a Dream."
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This multigenerational family history has enough gripping moments to hold your attention, but ultimately it leaves you frustrated by its failure to braid subplots and characters into a gripping narrative.
By Stephen Holden FULL REVIEW
60
Despite its cutesy comic-relief digressions and overdone solemnity, The Stone Angel finds its way past tonal inconsistencies to a moving conclusion that doesn't romanticize death.
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A lesson in the perils of trying to cram a hefty Canadian novel that spans decades into a movie running just under two hours.
By Lou Lumenick FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Alliance, Astral Media, Buffalo Gal Pictures, HandMade Films, Movie Central Network, Sequence Film, Téléfilm Canada
Release Date Jul 11, 2008
Duration 1 h 56 m
Rating R
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Tagline Sometimes it takes your whole life to get it right.
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Awards

Genie Awards
• 2 Wins & 4 Nominations
Directors Guild of Canada
• 3 Nominations
Vancouver Film Critics Circle
• 2 Nominations

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