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A no-budget drama that takes an awfully long time to bring its supernatural undertones to the fore. Young Holly Jacobson gives an unexpectedly strong performance as the non-verbal autistic girl of abusive parents who appears to be haunted by her dead twin. Jacobson aside, the quality of the acting ranges from tolerable to pull-you-out-of-the-movie-and-slap-you-around-the-face bad and the lack of funds is apparent in every shot. The emotional pull of child abuse - even when inadequately explored - gives My Guardian Angel a kind of built-in emotional hold that is difficult to turn away from, but the pay-off really doesn't justify your time.

Just seemed to drag on near the end....worth a watch

The acting was atrocious, the story was boring and took way too long to get into it. I'm sure there are some horribly abusive parents out there, but the parents in this film just hated the child and were over the top cruel to their autistic child. It was a bit much to watch but also very fake high ratings.

I honestly can't understand how this is rated so high, unless friends of people involved in the movie are giving it fake reviews and high ratings.

Don't bother with it, it's loaded with bad acting, boring dialogue, a predictable story, and overall a waste of time.

This is not worth being on any streaming services. Amazon Prime showed an IMDb review of 7.8 and I made the mistake of not double checking it.

I wanted to be positive about this because the story is solid.

However.

The cast are terrible - specifically Maria Figgins as mother, Petra Bryant as Elena and Adrian Annis as father. I've genuinely watched this film at least 10 times and it still astounds me any of the cast were considered able to act these parts. Whilst I have highlighted a select few, nobody in this film should consider acting as a career - there is greater talent watching adverts for Oak Furniture Land, with a mango oak coffee table deserving of a best supporting actor nomination for the performances seen in this film.

By all means watch this film, just be prepared for something that is an embarrassment to British film

I thought this was a good movie. Reminiscent of Flowers in the Attic. It may take time, but it's worth it.

This British T. V movie is good in parts and the young girl is played very well, by a young actress. Some of the adult performances are hit and miss (at best). The story to its credit keeps you watching, where some much higher productions loose the interest.

I guess overall I'd rate this a 3.7 or so. But, OMG! The abuse her parents put the poor autistic girl through was terrible, but u just vouldnt look away! In the different abuse scenes? YOU BELIEVED IT! YOU WERE RIGHT THERE WITH HER EXPERIENCING THE PAIN AND TERROR!! Not since The Exorcist have I seen an actress hit her part dead on! Anybody that knows of an autistic xhild, can relate! Ms. HIill is going places in the acting biz!

27 minutes in and felt awful what a crap film I would rather have watched paint dry

Just like watching grass grow is pretty much how id describe this movie. One of those movies I'd definitely suggest fast forwarding to the end because it's really not worth investing 2 hours of your time into this one.

Had potential to really explore some of the themes it wanted to, and could have actually been really good; but it ended before it even really got started, and just felt like a B grade telemovie, besides the great acting of Jacobsen who plays Hannah.

It also showed scenes of aggressive child abuse which should not be allowed under any movie classification. For anyone with empathy, watching repeated scenes of a child being physically and emotionally abused, is extremely painful and harrowing.

For films with backstory, the backstory needs to be explored a bit more, so viewers can relate and also have a bigger pay-off if there is a happy ending.

I agree with some of the reviews when it comes to the acting of the parents.... you definitely want The parents to die watching this movie. And, I felt there was something lacking in the middle when it came to the voodoo. Maybe the writer didn't want it to be too magical. I did find myself feeling what Hannah was going through throughout the movie. And I found myself hating the Primary teacher for being so ignorant. Yes, The beginning is slow, it needs to be slow so you can get into the feeling that the writer intended for you to feel. Be patient, it's worth it to see the ending for its revenge. .

More mid than my first kiss which was also sloppy and rushed. This could have been an email. Wouldn't reccomend. Would give negative stars if that was an option, which ironically is how I feel about my first kiss, too.

Storyline could have had potential, but this film is just bad, apart from the kids, the acting was so bad it was totally cringy. Terrible, actually the worst acting I have ever seen, feel sorry for the girl to have been in a movie with such bad adult actors. The mother is just a bad panto actress, the storyline equally bad in parts. For example SEN teacher pretending to be headteacher on a phone call, the SEN teacher had a foreign accent. Later in the film she admits "I dont even sound like you!" Really??? Did they make this up as they went along? Was going to switch the film off half way through. I even though it was baddly dubbed in the beginning, but then realised these are English actors. Worst film I watched in a long time, very surprised some good rating on here....