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An Angel for May
When Tom accidentally travels back in time through a fireplace in a ruined farmhouse he meets May, an orphan who needs help. Now that he knows his friends' fate and his own, he will try to reorder the events and change their history.
Release : | 2002 |
Rating : | 6.9 |
Studio : | |
Crew : | Director, |
Cast : | Julie Cox Matthew Beard Matthew McNulty Anna Massey Angeline Ball |
Genre : | Drama Family |
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To me, this movie is perfection.
best movie i've ever seen.
This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.
This movie feels like it was made purely to piss off people who want good shows
This is a very fine British family film. Because it is British rather than American, it is not stuffed full of artificial and mawkish sentimentality, but is more effective for being 'straight up'. The central role is played by an excellent child actor named Matthew Beard (born 1989), who since then has appeared in many films and TV series, most recently playing Guy Bellingfield in the rather notorious recent film THE RIOT CLUB (2014), which parodies the Bullingdon Club at Oxford. The young girl who plays opposite Beard is played by Charlotte Wakefield (born 1990), who is also excellent. Since then she has appeared in four TV series. Angeline Ball does an excellent job of playing the highly nervy and objectionable mother of Beard and does some really good hysterical scenes. (Let's hope she does not take her work home with her.) Sturdy Tom Wilkinson is there, like an English oak, supporting the whole effort with his unflappable demeanour as a farmer who is the adoptive father of the girl. Anna Massey plays 'Rosie' and gives a marvellous professional polish to the proceedings, as she did to everything. Of all the actresses I have known, she was certainly one of the nicest and most intelligent. She was married to a delightful, gentle scientist named Uri Andres (who once astounded me by handing me a chunk of kimberlite containing diamonds), having earlier somehow survived marriage to Jeremy Brett, which was evidently not easy. (She also had sadly unsatisfactory relationships with her father and her brother, the actors Raymond Massey and Daniel Massey, so you could say she had a rough time with the male gender for much of her life.) She was a truly fascinating woman. The well-known character actress Dora Bryan has a bit part in this film, and it is a shame we see so little of her. Willard Carroll has done a very good job of directing this film. The story is a 'slip through time' one, where the little boy of today goes back to the days of World War Two and then returns much wiser. It is quite an adventure, and children will love it. The film was shot entirely on location in South Yorkshire, with much beautiful scenery. The film is entirely wholesome, and the coarsest thing in it is milking a cow.
This is a surprising little gem of a film that takes a slightly hackneyed premise and brings it to life again. A boy, child of a modern family, seems to be acting up. Then he disappears. But things are not as they seem in this heartwarming drama about a young boy learning to trust, and a young girl learning to love, in this tale of two times in one place. The acting is fine and understated, but Tess the dog will still steal your heart! The film has a realistic sheen to it, rather than the usual mistiness associated with films of the genre, and this ordinariness heightens the quality of the drama. What is more, the film is not set in London, as so many are. There is little else I can say without spoiling your enjoyment of the film.
This is a very sweet film, about a young boy who is able to time travel, but he does so for his friend, May. There were some interesting surprises,and the plot left you always wondering. It is sort of like a MUCH nicer "Butterfly Effect", but still, all in all not the same, but MUCH better. I would recommend this for adults and children alike, and the children may not understand at first, but the message of kindness and caring will surely come through, as May's Angel is a young boy himself. While they have Irish accents, the cast is not hard to understand at all, as they have a very light brogue, and not the heavy accents you see in some movies. Highly recommend to see, if you get the chance.
I saw this film in a movie festival in Brittany, France. Somebody here said it was for children, but I'm 27, I saw it with my mother and my boyfriend when it came out, and the three of us just loved it. The story of a young boy accidentally traveling into the past, and then going back there on purpose and saving a little girl's life is absolutely brilliant, and the actors are all perfect : Charlotte Wakefield and Matthew Beard show an outstanding maturity, and Tom Wilkinson, Julie Cox and Anna Massey are also incredibly moving. After seeing this film we were all in tears, and I was thrilled tonight when it got on TV at long last... I just found out it had come out on DVD in America, so I will be able to get it and recommend it to everyone I know.