Angel Mine | |
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Directed by | David Blyth |
Written by | David Blyth |
Produced by | Warren Sellers David Blyth |
Starring | Derek Ward Jennifer Redford Myra De Groot |
Cinematography | John Earnshaw |
Edited by | Philip Howe |
Music by | Mark Nicholas Suburban Reptiles |
Production companies | ILA Films New Zealand Film Commission |
Distributed by | ILA Films Valhalla Films |
Release date |
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Running time | 68 minutes |
Country | New Zealand |
Language | English |
Angel Mine is a 1978 New Zealand fantasy fiction film. [1] [2] [3] [4]
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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