An Angel at My Table

An Angel at My Table
Directed byJane Campion
Screenplay byLaura Jones
Based onTo the Is-Land
by Janet Frame
An Angel at My Table
by Janet Frame
The Envoy from Mirror City
by Janet Frame
Produced byJohn Maynard
Bridget Ikin
StarringKerry Fox
CinematographyStuart Dryburgh
Edited byVeronika Jenet
Music byDon McGlashan
Production
companies
Distributed bySharmill Films (Australia)
Artificial Eye (United Kingdom)
Release dates
  • 5 September 1990 (1990-09-05) (Venice Film Festival)
  • 20 September 1990 (1990-09-20) (Australia)
Running time
158 minutes
CountriesNew Zealand
Australia
United Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
Box officeNZ$569,000 (New Zealand)[1]
$1,054,638 (US and Canada)[2]

An Angel at My Table is a 1990 biographical drama film directed by Jane Campion. The film is based on Janet Frame's three autobiographies, To the Is-Land (1982), An Angel at My Table (1984), and The Envoy from Mirror City (1984).[3] The film was very well received. It won awards at the New Zealand Film and Television awards, the Toronto International Film Festival, and second prize at the Venice Film Festival.[4]

  1. ^ "Top Fourteeen New Zealand Movies Released in New Zealand". Cinema Papers. No. 97–98. April 1994. p. 15. Retrieved 7 August 2022.
  2. ^ "An Angel at My Table (1991)". Box Office Mojo. Amazon.com. Retrieved 9 October 2011.
  3. ^ Cordaiy, Hunter (November 1990). "An Angel at My Table". Cinema Papers. pp. 32–36. Retrieved 7 October 2024.
  4. ^ "Background - An Angel at My Table - Film". NZ On Screen. Retrieved 8 January 2018.