Offending Angels is a 2002

2002 in film

The year 2002 in film involved some significant events. The first significant releases of sequels took place between The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones, Men in Black II, Analyze That, Spy Kids 2: The Island of...

 British

Cinema of the United Kingdom

The United Kingdom has had a major influence on modern cinema. The first moving pictures developed on celluloid film were made in Hyde Park, London in 1889 by William Friese Greene, a British inventor, who patented the process in 1890. It is generally regarded that the British film industry...

 romantic comedy film directed by Andrew Rajan.

Plot

Sam and Baggy are two non-committal slackers who wile their time away with nonsensical affairs while dreaming of greater things in life. Paris and Zeke are two guardian angels who confront them with plans for change. Paris is a former dolphin while Zeke is a former squirrel.

Cast

• Susannah Harker.....Paris
• Shaun Parkes.....Zeke
• Andrew Lincoln
  Andrew Lincoln
  Andrew Lincoln is an English actor, known for his roles in the TV series This Life, Teachers and Afterlife, and the films Love Actually and Heartbreaker...
  
  .....Sam
• Andrew Rajan.....Baggy
• Jack Davenport
  Jack Davenport
  Jack Davenport is an English actor, best known for his roles in the television series This Life, Coupling and as James Norrington in the Pirates of the Caribbean series. He has also appeared in many other Hollywood films such as The Talented Mr. Ripley...
  
  .....Rory
• Stephen Mangan
  Stephen Mangan
  Stephen Mangan is an English actor, best known for his roles as Guy Secretan in the television series Green Wing, Dan Moody in I'm Alan Partridge and as Holistic Detective Dirk Gently in the 2010 BBC adaptation of Douglas Adams' book Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency, as well as Sean Lincoln...
  
  .....Fergus
• Michael Cochrane
  Michael Cochrane
  Michael Cochrane is an English actor who specialises in playing upper class characters, sometimes with a suaveness that hides their villainy....
  
  .....Mentor

Reception

The film became notorious because it took £89 or £79 at the box office. It had a £70,000 budget and did very well on the festival circuit, selling out at every attendance; Gothenburg 2002, Raindance 2001, Emden 2002 and as the opening Gala Film at the Berlin Britspotting Festival, 2002. Subsequently picked up by Ardent International sales agents on the strength of press reviews and actors performances, just at the time when Ardent CEO Prince Edward

Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex

Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex KG GCVO is the third son and fourth child of Elizabeth II and The Duke of Edinburgh...

 exited the industry, which proved to be terrible timing for the film release in the UK.

Critics

The film split the critics; panned by some including the BBC

BBC

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, who called it a "truly awful pile of garbage", but Film Review, called it "A rather heartwarming story of the need to remember to live your life".

Awards and nominations

Emden International Film Festival

• Nominated, "Emden Film Award" - Andrew Rajan

External links

• http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/film/article-21574508-anatomy-of-a-flop.do
• http://www.pantsproductions.com/5667.html