Title | : | An Angel at My Table |
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Release | : | 1990 |
Rating | : | 7.6 |
Language | : | English, Spanish |
Runtime | : | 158 |
Genre | : | Action,Biography,Drama |
In 1920s and 1930s New Zealand, Janet Frame grows up in a poor family with lots of brothers and sisters. Already at an early age she is different from the other kids. She gets an education as a teacher but since she is considered abnormal she stays at a mental institution for eight years. Success comes when she starts to write novels.
Janet Frame (autobiographical books "To the Is-Land", "An Angel at My Table" and "The Envoy from Mirror City"), Laura Jones (screenplay)