Death of an Angel

– Grace, a priest, tracks her missing daughter to a religious community where the strange father Angel..

Type:
Movie
Rating:
5.50 / 10
Duration:
One Hour and 31 Minutes
Release Year:
1986
Death of an Angel (1986)

Grace, a priest, tracks her missing daughter to a religious community where the strange father Angel is keeping a wooden Jesus figure that sheds actual blood. When the cross is stolen, Grace decides to help out to get her daughter back.

Producing Country:
USA
Genre:
Release Date:

07 Mar 1986

Language:

English

MPAA Content-Rating:
PG – Parental Guidance Suggested

Some material may not be suitable for children. Parents urged to give "parental guidance". May contain some material parents might not like for their young children.

Director:

Petru Popescu

Writer:

Petru Popescu

Main Actors:

Bonnie Bedelia, Alex Colon, Abel Franco, Irma García

Plot:

Grace McKenzie's life has changed drastically after a car accident killed her husband and crippled her daughter. Already a deacon, Grace decides to further her career in the church and becomes a priest. But then her daughter, disappears. Unhappy as she was, it looks like she ran away. Six weeks later, a man suddenly is sitting in Grace's car. He says he knows where her daughter is currently residing and is willing to take her there for a large fee. He brings her to a remote location near the Mexican border, where a group of religious people are hoping for another wonder. The leader of the group, father Angel, seems to have great powers. He is in possession of a wooden Jesus figure on a cross that sheds real blood from his wounds in the head after Angel's prayers. But a group of criminals steal the cross and all the money intended for the construction of a church. Hoping to take her daughter back home as soon as possible, Grace decides to help father Angel. He claims there is another Jesus figure of the same type kept in Nogales, Mexico.

Production:

20th Century Fox Film Corporation

Ratings:
Internet Movie Database:
5.4/10