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Angel In Training

1998, Movie, G, 90 mins

Angel In Training: Review

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Marred by cheesy production values, this family-values drama may please teenage fans of TV's Touched by an Angel. With scenes of pointless slapstick and homilies on how to survive peer pressure, it's little more than a harmless throwaway. Unable to fit in at school, tomboy Desi Brook (Laila Dagher) would rather shoot hoops than chase boys at the mall. Her adolescent pangs are magnified when her widower father Cameron (Gary Imhoff), creator of the "Spy Cat" cartoon, falls under the spell of his pushy agent Peyton (Veronica Allen). Peyton plans to popularize "Spy Cat" and pressures Cameron to make artistic changes; she also plans to wed her client, then milk him for alimony. Spotting this scheme from Heaven, Desi's late mother gets permission to reappear on Earth as a teenager named R.J. (Danielle Pessis). R.J. teaches Desi to be her own person and advises her on how to give Peyton enough rope to hang herself. Will Peyton lose her fiancee and meal ticket? Will Desi learn how to balance boys and basketball? Just how long a leave of absence do angels get, anyway? It's reassuring to think that one's deceased parents can pull strings from the Great Beyond, but this soothing fantasy soon turns cloying. With a nincompoop script, barely competent direction and dull performances, this bit of feel-good fraudulence reduces all conflicts to an egregiously simple degree and sentences the viewer to a vanilla-flavored sit-com universe: "Leave It to Beaver... With Wings." It blissfully makes a case for avoiding self-help: Dead relatives can straighten out your problems for you. leave a comment --Robert Pardi
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