Angel Mine

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Angel Mine
Directed byDavid Blyth
Written byDavid Blyth
Produced byWarren Sellers
David Blyth
StarringDerek Ward
Jennifer Redford
Myra De Groot
CinematographyJohn Earnshaw
Edited byPhilip Howe
Music byMark Nicholas
Suburban Reptiles
Production
companies
Distributed byILA Films
Valhalla Films
Release date
  • 1978 (1978)
Running time
68 minutes
Country New Zealand
LanguageEnglish

Angel Mine is a 1978 New Zealand fantasy fiction film. [1] [2] [3] [4]

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Synopsis

Angel Mine is advertised as a drug for automatically solving marital problems. A young Auckland middle class suburban couple become entangled in this surrealistic world switching between reality and fantasy while attempting to model their lives on media advertising in a world of black leather and punk music. [2] [5] [6]

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