An old-fashioned tale with roots in the "Beauty and the Beast" legend, ANGEL RIVER is set on the Arizona frontier in the 1870s. Johnson, best known for her role as the skating star in ICE CASTLES, here plays an innocent young woman who lives with her parents on a remote ranch. One sunny
day, while bathing in a nearby river, Johnson is spied upon by a leering Mexican bandido, Sanchez. Sanchez abducts the girl, thus beginning a strange relationship between the two. ANGEL RIVER is a thoroughly well-intentioned film that attempts to return to a long-lost idea of fairy-tale-style
romance. Johnson and Sanchez do what they can with their characters, but neither of them is...
Released:
1986
Rated:
NR
Length:
92 mins