The parents of sisters Angela (Miranda Stuart Ryne) and Ellie (Charlotte Blythe) love each other a lot, but their mother (Anna Thompson of Unforgiven) is emotionally unstable, to say the least. The girls cope with their difficult family life by literally creating a world all of their own, with only Angela's imagination as a roadmap. "Its early scenes beautifully capture a childhood intuition of a world where bogeymen lurk and angels hover. On a more somber note, the film is an almost clinical study of how children absorb their parents' psychology," wrote Stephen Holden when he reviewed Angela in the New York Times. The first film written and directed by Rebecca Miller (daughter of legendary dramatist Arthur Miller), Angela announced the presence of a major new film artist when it was released in 1992. Miller would go on to direct the Sundance Grand Jury Prize-winner Personal Velocity, and then The Ballad Of Jack And Rose, starring her husband Daniel Day-Lewis.
