Angel Rodriguez is a 2005 American

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 TV film, that showed at the Toronto International Film Festival

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 under the title Angel. HBO picked up the film and released it under the longer name both on their movie channel and on DVD.

Plot

Angel (Jonan Everett) is a troubled teen in Brooklyn

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, New York

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, who is homeless after being kicked out by his father. He is—for a while—taken in by a kind-hearted social worker (Rachel Griffiths

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) who has her own problems.

He later tries to find support and shelter with friends from his school, and eventually attempting to find a way to get by on his own.