A Golf Comedy Women Love!
⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ 5/5 “Eagle and the Albatross brought a tear to my eye… tears of sadness AND joy.”
5/5 Nerdly UK review
Starring KPOP Sensation Amber Liu
and the dad from Wonder Years, Dan Lauria!
A DELIGHTFULLY IRREVERENT COMEDY
THAT MAKES YOU CRY
There are only a handful of golf movies in the world. Happy Gilmore, Caddyshack, Happy Gilmore, The Greatest Game Ever Played, Tin Cup, and The Legend of Bagger Vance - now add Eagle and the Albatross to that golf movie list! It doesn't get old.
When an orphaned half-Korean girl (AMBER LIU) finds herself in small-town America with her only living relative, she seeks out a mentor to help with the only thing she loves – golf. The best player in town, the widowed optometrist (DAN LAURIA) , takes her under his wing, sending them on a journey to face their fear of losing loved ones and their game.
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NOTE FROM THE DIRECTOR, ANGELA SHELTON:
Howdy ya’ll!
I appreciate you watching this little movie we made that people love so much! I wrote this film in honor of misfits and mentors. I am both. The misfit in me needed a mentor and the mentor in me helps misfits.
I dedicate the film to the man who transformed my life - my adopted dad. If you’d like to know the heart behind the film, keep reading or read once you watch it!
WARNING: it’s a comedy that makes you cry.
The Heart Behind The Film is For My Mentor and Dad.
I wrote this film Eagle and the Albatross in honor of the film producer Jake Eberts and I dedicate it to him at the end as well as my golf coach and his wife.
Jake Eberts produced many movies like Dances with Wolves, Driving Miss Daisy, Chariots of Fire… the list goes on and on with over 60 Oscar winners. He also produced the golf film, The Legend of Bagger Vance. He was a genius and the only true gentleman I ever met connected to Hollywood. He would probably say that’s because he didn’t live there.
I met him at Sundance, the festival that he and Robert Redford started.
He saw my documentary, Searching for Angela Shelton, which played at Slamdance about how I traveled the country meeting all the other women with my same name in an effort to simply survey women in America. I just used my name as a vehicle through which to meet them. Turns out, bad news, 70% of the women I met had been victims of abuse and good news - 100% left abusive relationships, started their own businesses, went to school, have healthy relationships, one went into rehab, and I finished my film. It has a happy ending - just like Eagle and the Albatross does too.
But the real kicker is when one of the Angela Sheltons was tracking sexual predators and she lived in the same town as my dad… who was a child molester… and we arrived on Father’s Day. It’s one of those moments you can’t make up and can’t believe is happening. So I went and confronted my father on Father’s Day about abusing me and my step-siblings and that film is still taught in schools today. I wrote a book about it. I traveled the world with it. I get messages every day for over 2 decades about how it helped someone. It’s worth a watch for sure, even in SD. But it wasn’t easy for me to make by any stretch. It turned my world upside down. That was one of the reasons I wanted to make this COMEDY!
Jake Eberts had this to say about my documentary:
"The film is too important, too meaningful, too touching, TOO TERRIFIC to be seen casually. From the first frame to the last I was in turn riveted, weepy, drained, shattered, hopeful…and plenty of other emotions in between. You are one remarkable, talented lady. It took enormous courage, persistence, and honesty to pull this off. Most importantly, you managed to keep your sense of humour, and at the same time show a willingness to forgive. What an unbeatable combo! Congratulations! This film should be shown in every home, in every country, in the world.”
– JAKE EBERTS, producer of Dances With Wolves, Driving Miss Daisy, Chariots of Fire, Gandhi (and the list goes on)
Needless to say, I was gobsmacked.
I mean for THAT man to say that about me and my film was beyond any review from any nutball Hollywood PR person I ever met in my life.
I said to him, “Wow if only I had had you as my dad.”
He turned to me, grinned, and put his arm around him, and said, “Well, then you are my daughter." And then he did that for the rest of his life.
That moment was like a wild matrix rewiring of every negative thought pattern in your brain. One of those hands-on healings. One of those your life changes in an instant moments. Jake put his arm around me and called me his daughter and he just fixed it. It was fixed. It was a very dad thing to do.
Those words made every part of my little abused inner child shudder with joy and rewired my mind and my heart and I'm kinda convinced it made me taller. 🤯 It put a forever smile on my face. He gave me the dad I always wanted. He would text me as his daughter, email me that way, and loved me like a daughter when I visited him and his wife, who became my adopted mum. Their photos are on my mantel. They are my mentors. Their love was more healing than anything I ever experienced in my life. They were my adopted parents. For one of their anniversaries, I think it was their 43rd, I was at dinner with them. I still cry about how moved I am by being loved and appreciated as a daughter by outstanding humans. It’s healing on overdrive. And if you know me and my sense of humor I even photoshopped myself into the photos of their actual kids! 😂 I put myself in the back like there she is!
In my trauma healing work and coaching, I share that exercise a lot and how you don't have to have a Jake Eberts to heal that dad wound. You can adopt a great dad for yourself, or a mom!
It's simple. It's profound. It's life-changing. You can even just pretend. It's the FEELING that does the healing.
I felt it. He was honest too, maybe the most honest man I've ever met. He meant it. And I felt it.
Jake passed away very suddenly from ocular cancer that spread to his liver.
He was gone wayyy too fast. The theory was it was all the cell phones next to his head that did it. He lived on the cell phone, even back in the day when they were giants.
So I wrote the character of Al in Eagle and the Albatross in honor of Jake. The grumpy Jewish side is inspired totally by my actual golf coach, but the heart and the mentoring and the fatherly side and also how he died is Jake.
How Did I Find Amber Liu?
I found Amber through church! A big fan of my boxing film, THE HAMMER (aka Heart, Baby!) knew her from church and asked if I needed a lead for the movie. I said I was looking for a typical KPop star. Amber Liu is VERY different than typical. She’s like me - she’s a rebel and doesn’t fit into a box. The moment I spoke to her, she had me at tacos, and I adjusted the part to fit her.
The timing was one of those perfect blessed moments. On the sad side, she had just lost someone close, and losing Al in the movie was one of those magic healing moments too. Amber is a gem of a human. I recommend you support and love her out there like her fans do!
So thank you for reading and opening your heart with humor. I hope you like Eagle and the Albatross.
The movie is very funny and heartwarming and now that you know the heart behind it, you'll spot little gems and moments that may make you grin even more. And if you want to laugh, find me in the bottom right corner of the poster. Bahahaha. Yep, that's me! I took a dare.
My business card says: This proves we met and you will see all my movies because laughing while crying is something you get.
Hit em’ straight and keep practicing at this game of life, because we don’t own it.
I love you for making it this far! Fore! (that's what you yell on a golf course to watch out!)
Angela
See the documentary that led me to confront my abusive dad and then led me to my dream dad: https://www.angelashelton.com/documentary
Wild, right?!
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