Angel Square (1991)

Interesting facts

Angel Square is a 1991 Canadian film directed by Anne Wheeler and starring Ned Beatty and Nicola Cavendish. The film is based on the novel of the same title by Brian Doyle.

Production

Although Doyle's original novel had been set in Ottawa, Wheeler was not able to shoot the film there as the architecture of the Lower Town neighbourhood had become too modern for a film set in the 1940s. Instead she shot the film in Edmonton, whose Old Strathcona neighbourhood still possessed more appropriate period detail.

It is unclear, however, whether the film version is canonically set in Ottawa or Edmonton, with both cities having been claimed by different sources. Gerald Pratley, further, ascribes the film with a setting of Winnipeg in his book A Century of Canadian Cinema.

Although the film was finished by fall 1990, its distribution arrangements were not finalized, and would have led to the film getting only a limited release at film festivals in the fall before opening commercially in the spring or summer of 1991 despite its Christmas theme. Accordingly, the producers decided to delay release until 1991 so that the film could properly go into general release close to Christmas.

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