A Rumor of Angels

A Rumor of Angels is a 2000 American film directed by Peter OFallon, starring Vanessa Redgrave and Ray Liotta. The story is based upon the 1918 novel Thy Son Liveth Messages From a Soldier to His Mother by Grace Duffie Boylan. Although the novel tells the story of what a mother learned from her son about death after he dies in a French battlefield during World War I, the movie is set in the latter part of the 20th century.

One day playing an imaginary game behind the house of Maddy Bennet Vanessa Redgrave, he breaks her fence. Maddy demands that he fix it. Soon the two become good friends. Maddy also lost her son Bobby in 1974 in the Vietnam War. She tells her experiences of losing her son to James. She forces James to talk about his mother and face his fears. She tells him that her son Bobby talks to her.Jamess parents do not like the stories Maddy tells James and forbid him from seeing her. James becomes distraught at the loss of his friend. Meanwhile, Maddy has a heart attack, and Jamess parents permit him to nurse her back to health. Soon after her recovery, though, she dies. James becomes reconciled with his father, who now talks to him more, and with his stepmother. ........

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