i have a chance to see a screening of this movie recently . i believe that it will be in theater in canada some time around mother day . if it be in a theater near you . go . it not a funny feel good movie it more along the line of a feel and think movie . the director do an excellent job of character development let you into the heart and mind and hurt of hagar little by little . at first and her attitude and behavior do not make much sense . a her story unfolds and she become someone you can understand . a in life . understanding brings empathy . i find her likable by the end of the movie particularly when she open up her heart to the young man in the shack by the lake . hagar relationship with her two son be painful and reflective of so many of our own experience in this world . her young son and john and who be full of life and adventure take the viewer to the very edge of their seat and into the kind of raw emotion that be so authentic and rare . it fun to see ellen page act in this movie . she be so very different than the young woman that she play in juno . it give me an even broad appreciation for her acting ability . if you love her in juno and you will love her in the stone angel . of course and there be ellen burnstyn a hagar . there be likely no way of express the power of act as strongly a the ability for the actor to make you forget every other character they have ever play . never once in the course of this movie do i ever think of ellen burnstyn i always and only thought of hagar . she sweep me into her character hook and line and sinker . kari skogland capacity to capture on film this renowned book by one of canada most cherished author be impressive . she brilliantly bring to the screen both the stoney and angelic part of this complex woman and hagar the stone angel .