Bright Angel is a 1990 American drama film directed by Michael Fields, and starring Dermot Mulroney, Lili Taylor, and Sam Shepard.

The shoot was reportedly tumultuous for Lili Taylor, who was nearly fired over aesthetic decisions she'd made in presenting herself as the character.

[3] Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times enjoyed the film and gave it 3 1/2 stars: There is a moment in every good movie when it becomes clear that the director knows what he is doing.

In Michael Fields' Bright Angel, that moment comes when the son and the father come home, and find that the mother has been fooling around with another man... Movies like this (I am also reminded of Terrence Malick's Badlands and Days of Heaven) depend so much on actors for the right tone, and Lili Taylor and Dermot Mulroney are perfectly matched to the material.

[4]However, reviews such as Kathleen Maher of The Austin Chronicle did not think highly of it, gave it 2 stars and had differing views of the acting: Someone, it seems, has been watchin too many '70s road pictures and reading Jim Thompson novels way too late at night...