''Painted Angels'' (1997) (US: ''The Wicked Wicked West'') is a film by

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starring

Brenda Fricker Brenda Fricker (born 17 February 1945) is an Irish actress, whose career has spanned six decades on stage and screen. She has appeared in more than 30 films and television roles. In 1990, she became the first Irish actress to win an Academy Awar ...

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and Anna Mottram. The film was shot in

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, Canada, and follows the lives of several women in a

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in a

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ern

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town in the 1870s. It premièred at the

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and was released in cinemas in the UK by Artificial Eye in February 1999 and on video in June 1999.

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