Mark of an Angel

Elsa, a woman with a long history of depression, in the midst of a divorce from her husband of twelve years, develops an obsession with a seven year old girl she sees at a birthday party when she comes to pick up her son Thomas. Determined to find out more about the girl, Elsa uses Thomas as a way into the girl's family, by helping a friendship develop between Thomas and the girl's brother Jeremy, so that in turn Elsa can befriend the girl's mother Claire. She uses Thomas more and more in her pursuit of this obsession, telling her employer and fellow employees that Thomas is seriously ill so that she can run off and watch the girl (Lola) wherever she goes. Elsa even tells her parents lies that she is going out with a friend so they will baby-sit so Elsa can even go as far as hiding in the bushes outside of Lola's house, and watching her at night. At first Claire doesn't suspect anything, but gradually notices that Elsa is paying too much attention to Lola, and confronts Elsa. Elsa in turn claims that she knows that Lola is her long presumed-dead daughter and somehow Claire has stolen her.

Grosses

France
$5,400,009
Domestic ()
Summary Details
DistributorDiaphana Distribution
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Opening$1,548,081
286 theaters
Release DateAug 13, 2008
Running Time1 hr 35 min
GenresDrama
In Release141 days/20 weeks
Widest Release329 theaters
DateRankWeekend %± LW TheatersChange AvgTo DateWeekend
Aug 13-17
Beijing Olympics
4$1,548,081-286-$5,412$1,548,0811
Aug 20-24
Beijing Olympics
8$1,087,459-29.8%329+43$3,305$3,346,5723
Aug 27-3115$552,071-49.2%329-$1,678$3,873,0513
Sep 3-718$368,361-33.3%290-39$1,270$4,275,7664
Sep 10-1415$299,297-18.7%307+17$974$4,651,2225
Sep 17-2119$142,405-52.4%281-26$506$5,044,3636
Sep 24-2826$77,092-45.9%209-72$368$5,247,2957
Oct 1-528$54,386-29.5%128-81$424$5,314,0888
Oct 8-1236$19,156-64.8%82-46$233$5,378,1009
Oct 15-1943$10,629-44.5%44-38$241$5,400,00910