Sweet Angel Mine (1996)

User Rating:

5.5/10   

Director:

Curtis Radclyffe

Writers:

Sue Maheu (writer)
Tim Willocks (writer)

Release Date:

17 September 1999 (UK)

Genre:

Thriller

Plot Keywords:

Shirtless Male Bondage | Psychology | Whipping | Independent Film

Awards:

1 win & 1 nomination

Cast

John Dunsworth	...	Billy Lee
Oliver Milburn	...	Paul Davis
Mike Crimp	...	Sgt. Taylor
Alberta Watson	...	Megan
Margaret Langrick	...	Rauchine
Anna Massey	...	Mother
Joel Sapp	...	Gritley
John Fulton	...	Herb
Marguerite McNeil	...	Estelle (as Marguerite MacNeil)
Robyn Baker	...	Young Megan

Runtime:

88 min

Country:

UK | Canada

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Certification:

Australia:MA | UK:18

Filming Locations:

Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

Company:

British Screen Productions

Trivia:

The motorcycle featured is a 1973 T140V Triumph Bonneville.

Soundtrack:

Midnight Cloud

A sweet title for a not-so-sweet movie.

How do I love this movie? Let me count the ways. OK. I'm done counting. I can count the ways I love this movie on fewer than the fingers of one hand. In fact, I wouldn't even need one finger. Not unless I was using my middle finger.

This is the type of movie where you root for the young lover-wannabes to NOT get together at the end. This is the type of movie where you root for the entire cast of characters to die in the end. And speaking of root, this is the type of movie that gives undergoing a root canal a good name. That's what I wish I'd been doing instead of watching this movie---undergoing a root canal.

One really has to wonder how this film got by the Canadian Board of Tourism. Not to mention the Province of Nova Scotia's Chamber of Commerce. That's where it takes place. ("Come visit beautiful Nova Scotia. You, too, can act like an idiot!") The plot? Why bother? When every character in a movie can't get a clue, ESPECIALLY the two young lovers, then any alleged plot becomes meaningless. The best ending for this movie would have been for all of its characters, in one mass group-in, to have thrown themselves into the Atlantic Ocean from atop the rocky Nova Scotian cliffs. And to have taken the director (Curtis Radclyffe) with them! That, finally, would have been the first thing about this movie to make any sense.

"Sweet Angel Mine." Never judge a movie by its title. I did. And because I did, I wasted nearly two hours of my lifetime. That's two lost hours that can never be reclaimed. A root canal, at least, when it's all over, turns out to have been worthwhile time well spent.