Treading the fine line between adolescence and adulthood, the Field sisters have all but declared war on their domineering father. Though Jim Field (Callum Keith Rennie) runs the family house like a military camp, it’s the three teenage daughters who really run the show and babysit their fragile mother Mary (Miranda Richardson) as she quietly sits on the couch and quells her anxiety with whiskey.

This is the year that Lou and her sisters are torn between the lure of the world outside and the claustrophobic world of their home. Feisty and stubborn Lou misdirects her anger toward her tyrannical father and escapes with her rebel American boyfriend, Sandy perfects her feminine ways and seeks the affections of an older man while Norma hampered by her own emerging sexuality tries to keep the peace.

A delicate balancing act of humour and tragedy Falling Angels is a richly woven character-study.

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• Amazing Grace
• Cafe Lumiere
• Casshern
• Dig!
• It's All Gone Pete Tong
• Machuca
• Mysterious Skin
• Palindromes
• Republic of Love
• Scared Sacred
• Sky Blue
• Steamboy
• The Take
• Untold Scandal
• Wall (Mur)
• White Skin