Nora Roberts - Winding Paths

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Movie
German title Nora Roberts -
Winding Paths
Original title Angel's case
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 2007
length 91 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Ralph Hemecker
script Janet Brownell
production Stephanie Germain ,
Peter Guber , Salli Newman , Peter Strauss
music Chris P. Bacon
Stuart Michael Thomas
camera Joel Ransomware
cut Louis F. Cioffi
occupation

Tangled Paths (Original title: Angels Fall ) is an American thriller by Ralph Hemecker from 2007 . The main roles are cast with Heather Locklear and Johnathon Schaech .

Janet Brownell wrote the screenplay for the film based on Nora Roberts' novel Angels Fall , published in 2006, German first edition also in 2006 by Diana-Verlag.

action

The excellent cook Reese Gilmore is the only one to survive the robbery of a restaurant in Boston where she works. Fourteen of her friends and colleagues, including her best friend Jeannie, are shot dead in front of her eyes. Reese survived seriously injured. After long periods of mental treatment, she drives across the United States, still terrified and plagued by nightmares and anxiety. Her car breaks down in the small town of Angels Fall, and since she has to wait for spare parts, she takes a job as a cook at the local diner. There she meets the crime writer Brody.

While walking in the mountains, Reese accidentally observes the murder of a woman, but local sheriff Rick Marsden doesn't believe her because of the lack of evidence. A corpse cannot be found at the alleged crime scene, and none of the local residents are missing. Marsden researches and learns that Reese spent time in a mental institution after the robbery. Not only he, but also the other residents of Angel's case dismiss the observations told by Reese and also other strange occurrences as the pipe dream of a mentally unstable woman.

Brody also learns about Reese's experiences from the sheriff and asks her to tell him about it. The young woman does so and accuses herself of having watched her best friend be shot dead. Brody scans the internet for reports of the robbery on the Boston restaurant.

Shortly afterwards, strange things start to happen in Reese's apartment, for example she suddenly finds her clothes in the fridge. She herself begins to believe that she is going out of her mind again. Only Brody believes her and encourages her not to give up. He suspects that the killer is trying to trick her into believing that she is crazy so that her testimony will not be believed.

Reese searches for suspects, also shows a phantom of the dead around - it turns out that this actually existed, worked as a nude dancer, and had a relationship with a man she called "The Trout". He in turn referred to her as his "dark side of the moon" and gave her a piece of jewelry in the shape of a crescent moon. A friend of the woman says that she has been missing for some time. Then Reese slowly begins to understand the connections: It is not the son of her employer who she suspects, but the sheriff who is the murderer - he had called his wife his sunshine and she was wearing a piece of jewelry in the shape of a sun. Reese wants to see Brody to explain the connection - but when she comes to his house, the sheriff has knocked him out and wants to kill both of them. At first Reese flees, but then she thinks better because this time she does not want to stand idly by while a loved one is murdered. Together, she and Brody defeat Sheriff Marsden, but do not kill him. Brody finally confirms Reese that she struggled this time.

Production notes

The shooting took place in Canmore ( Alberta , Canada instead).

The film opened in the USA on January 29, 2007. In Germany he did not go to the cinema; on July 19, 2007 it was released on DVD instead.

criticism

At Teleschau - the media service said that the producers of the TV adaptation would have done well to engage the multiple Golden Globe nominee Heather Locklear. She breathed what was missing in the book into her role, an understandable character .

Cinema's conclusion was negative: "Out and about on well-trodden paths"

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Winding Paths - Nora Roberts at belletristik-couch.de
  2. ↑ Filming locations for Angel's case, accessed July 17, 2007
  3. ↑ Angels Fall Tangled Ways DVD
  4. ↑ Nora Roberts - entwined ways ( memento of the original from August 1, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at Stimme.de. Retrieved July 31, 2016. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.stimme.de
  5. ↑ Nora Roberts: Winding Paths at Cinema (with 17 pictures for the film). Retrieved July 31, 2016.