Angel Square is a 1990 Canadian film set in 1945 and based on the novel of the same title by Brian Doyle

Brian Doyle (writer)

Brian Doyle is a well known Canadian author, whose children's books have been adapted into both movies and plays...

. Many of his books are set in Ottawa

Ottawa

Ottawa is the capital of Canada, the second largest city in the Province of Ontario, and the fourth largest city in the country. The city is located on the south bank of the Ottawa River in the eastern portion of Southern Ontario...

, Canada.

Summary

In writer and director Anne Wheeler's Bye Bye Blues, a blue-collar family finds all sorts of unorthodox means to confront the tribulations of World War II. In Angel Square, Wheeler deals with a more contemporary subject: random street crime. Ned Beatty stars as a standard-issue husband and father in a "safe" neighbourhood. Beatty's sense of security is violated when he is brutally beaten by a youth gang. The familial spirit of Bye Bye Blues is carried over into the climax of Angel Square, with Beatty's neighbours uniting to track down his assailants.

Cast

• Julie Bond as Mother
• Jay Brazeau
  Jay Brazeau
  Jay Brazeau is a notable Canadian actor and voice actor. He was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.-Career:His credits include voicing Richard Condie's Oscar-nominated animated short La Salla. He also appeared in two of the first season episodes of Highlander: The Series in 1992...
  
   as Mr. Rozenberg
• Nicola Cavendish
  Nicola Cavendish
  Nicola Cavendish is an English-born Canadian theatre and film actress. She has won a Genie Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role for the 1991 film The Grocer's Wife and a Gemini Award nomination for 1998 film The Sleep Room.Cavendish was born in Cirencester, United Kingdom,...
  
   as Aunt Dottie
• Brian Dooley
  Brian Dooley
  Brian Dooley is an English television writer.He is best known for creating the sitcom The Smoking Room, which debuted on BBC Three in 2004, before it was transferred to BBC Two, and for which he received a BAFTA in 2005. He also appears in the series as Ben...
  
   as Bert
• Guillaume Lemay-Thivierge
  Guillaume Lemay-Thivierge
  Guillaume Lemay-Thivierge is a Quebec actor and film producer. He is more notable for recent major roles in Quebec films Nitro and Les 3 p'tit cochons in 2007...
  
   as Coco
• Leon Pownall
  Leon Pownall
  Leon Pownall was a Welsh Canadian actor and director.He was born in Wrexham in Wales and came to Hamilton, Ontario with his family in 1957...
  
   as Blue Cheeks
• Vlasta Vrana
  Vlasta Vrana
  Vlasta Vrána is a Canadian actor of Czech descent, known for playing Jack Richards in A Year in the Death of Jack Richards. His surname means "crow" in Czech and several other Slavic languages.-Career:...
  
   as Logg
• Paul Whitney as Mr. Ritchie
• Ned Beatty
  Ned Beatty
  Ned Thomas Beatty is an American actor who has appeared in more than 100 films and has been nominated for an Academy Award, two Emmy Awards, an MTV Movie Award for Best Villain and a Golden Globe Award; won a Drama Desk Award....
  
   as Ozzie

Awards

In 1991 it won 3 awards at the Genie Awards.

• George Blondheim & Anne Wheeler for Best Original Song
• Garrell Clark & Paul A. Sharpe for Best Overall Sound
• Alison Grace, Gael MacLean, Anne Bakker, Debra Rurak, & Cal Shumiatcher for Best Adapted Screenplay

External links

• NFB collections page