Angel Baby

New Zealand released, PAL/Region 4 DVD: it WILL NOT play on standard US DVD player. You need multi-region PAL/NTSC DVD player to view it in USA/Canada. Languages:o English (Dolby Digital 2.0) Synopsis: In this unusual romantic drama from Australia, Harry (John Lynch) and Kate (Jacqueline McKenzie) are both patients at a psychiatric care facility. While in therapy, the two meet and fall in love, in spite of their troubled pasts. Despite the potential complications they might foresee with the relationship, Harry's main sources of support, his brother Morris (Colin Friels) and Morris's wife Louise (Deborrah-Lee Furness), are more concerned with Harry's stability and happiness than anything else, and they soon give him their blessing to marry Kate. However, it soon becomes obvious that love does not conquer all. Kate becomes pregnant, and her doctors try to persuade her to have an abortion. They believe that her mental illness could be passed along to her child, that she would not make a fit mother, and that her medication for schizophrenia could have a harmful effect on the fetus. Kate is convinced that the angel Astral speaks to her, and that the child she carries is his earthly incarnation; she refuses to have an abortion, but compromises by not taking her medication while pregnant. Harry stops taking his as well, but the couple's happiness is short-lived when their increasing instability leads to tragic consequences. Angel Baby won seven Australian Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Actor, and Best Actress. Special Features:o Scene Access Product Description

A Superb Film

I was lucky enough to get to see this film in my college psychology class.
It truly is a heartbreaking and beautiful love story involving two mentally ill individuals. This is rarely a story that is told; usually mentally ill people are darkly portrayed.
It was great to see a movie about such pure love. It has a strong message to it.
Love CAN change you, but it CAN'T always fix you.
Angel Baby gives you a different outlook on mentally ill people, and any film that does that I hold in very high regard.
The acting performances are superb. John Lynch is perfect on every level. The direction and screenplay are top notch.
I cannot think of a better movie dealing with both the good and bad sides of being mentally ill.
I wish there were more movies like this.
Angel Baby is a raw moving and honest look at two mentally ill people who are deeply in love.
A+ August 3, 2007

An Australian "Benny and Joon".

Great acting, beautifully shot with a great story about an age old topic, namely love, with a big TWIST! Different doesn't always mean disadvantaged. March 5, 2006

I have

I have 2 favorite movies, this is one of them.

Tragic and beautiful - absolutely full of life and all that comes with it.

I watch this movie ever couple of years and love it all over again.

A great film if you can find it. September 18, 2005

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