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An Angel at My Table
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Overview

User Rating:
7.4/10   2,397 votes
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Director:
Jane Campion
Writers:
Janet Frame (autobiographies To the Is-Land, An Angel at My Table and The Envoy from Mirror City)
Laura Jones (writer)
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Release Date:
20 September 1990 (Australia) more
Genre:
Biography | Drama more
Plot:
Janet Frame grows up in a poor family with lots of brothers and sisters. Already at an early age she is different than the other kids... more | add synopsis
Awards:
15 wins more
NewsDesk:
(3 articles)
Bright Star interview with Jane Campion.
 (From Movie Jungle. 25 September 2009, 6:33 AM, PDT)

Jane Campion Grilled on 'Bright Star'
 (From The Wrap. 19 September 2009, 8:59 AM, PDT)

User Comments:
As much emotion as one heart can hold more (15 total)

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)
Kerry Fox ... Janet Frame
Alexia Keogh ... Janet Frame as adolescent
Karen Fergusson ... Janet Frame as a child
Iris Churn ... Mother
Jessie Mune ... Baby Janet

Kevin J. Wilson ... Father
Francesca Collins ... Baby Jane
Melina Bernecker ... Myrtle
Mark Morrison ... Bruddie Frame as child
Katherine Murray-Cowper ... Young Isabel
Mark Thomson ... Billy Delaware
Brenda Kendall ... Miss Botting
Paul Moffat ... Dis McIvor
Blair Hutchison ... Bully Boy
David McAuslan ... Bully Boy
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Additional Details

Runtime:
158 min
Language:
English | Spanish
Colour:
Colour
Aspect Ratio:
1.66 : 1 more
Filming Locations:
Auckland, New Zealand more

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Trivia:
Kerry Fox gained two stone for her role as Janet Frame. She managed this by drinking liters of Coca-Cola, eating packets of chocolate biscuits and going on the pill. more
Movie Connections:
Featured in "Zomergasten: (#7.5)" (1994) more
Soundtrack:
Somebody Stole My Gal more

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As much emotion as one heart can hold, 24 January 2006
Author: (futures@exis.net) from Ronn Ives/FUTURES Antiques, Norfolk, VA.

"An Angel at My Table" (New Zealand, 1990): It's been three years since I've last watched this film. There is NO further reason to wonder if it should be in my "top" category. It is created by Jane Campion from the writer Janet Frame's autobiographies of her harrowing life. We join Janet during childhood, move through the teenage years and into adulthood, as she struggles for a place - ANY place - in the world...but deep down, writing is her one reliable love. Three actresses were needed for the role of Janet, and all do wonderful jobs, especially depicting someone who always feels on the outside, and longs to be included. Jane Campion, one of my favorite film makers, presents a powerful, subdued, and melancholy work of Art. It is not an amazing film due to every camera shot or the quality of sound recording… THIS work is great for its acting, and its story telling. It has as much emotion as one heart can hold for 157 minutes.

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