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Mood:
- AtmosphericSuspensefulMind BendingSexualScary
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Plot:
- Private DetectiveInvestigationTrack DownCurses Spells and RitualsMissing PersonCrimesDangerPsychological more...
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Genres:
- MysteryThrillerIndependentNeo NoirDrama
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Time/Period:
- 20th Century50s
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Place:
- New YorkUSA
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Audience:
- Boys' Night
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Praise:
- Critically Acclaimed
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Style:
- Twists and TurnsGory
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Based on:
- Based on Book
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Attitudes:
- SeriousSemi Fantastic
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Angel Heart, 1987
English, French
USA, Canada, UK
Profile of Angel Heart
The mood of Angel Heart is mind bending, atmospheric, and suspenseful. The plot centers around a private detective, a missing person, and tracking someone down. It is an independent, thriller, and mystery movie. Stylistically, Angel Heart is neo-noir, involves twists and turns, and is gory. In approach, it is serious. The setting is New York. Angel Heart happens in the 1950s. It is based on a book. The movie is known for being critically acclaimed. Angel Heart is especially suggested for a boys' night.
Summary of Angel Heart
In Alan Parker's ANGEL HEART, based on the novel FALLING ANGEL by William Hjortsberg, a New York City gumshoe is hired to find an aging blues singer. Harry Angel (Mickey Rourke) follows clues from the ominous ghettos of Harlem to the witchy backwoods of Louisiana, where he takes up with Epiphany Proudfoot (Lisa Bonet), the beautiful young daughter of a voodoo priestess, whom he believes will be able to shed light on the growing mystery surrounding the missing musician. As Angel closes in on the truth of the case, his contacts start turning up dead. He begins to suspect he might be next.
Parker (MISSISSIPPI BURNING) threads a commentary on the limitations of modern Western society into his sensual, suspenseful thriller. As the story unfolds, Angel relies less and less on his failing, overwhelmed rational mind (and handgun) and more on Epiphany's ancient mojo. Rourke captures the unraveling protagonist perfectly, and Bonet adds an erotic and mysterious edge with her performance. Robert De Niro is both funny and malevolent as Angel's mysterious client, Louis Cyphre. Shimmering with a beguiling mist of the macabre, ANGEL HEART provides an unexpectedly haunting dose of gothic noir.
Details
| Language: | English, French |
| Country: | USA, Canada, UK |
| Release date: | 6 March 1987 |
| Runtime: | 113 min |
Cast and Crew
as Harry Angel
as Louis Cyphre
as Epiphany Proudfoot
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Users Reviews
- 07.February.2012
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- by: Sari
- Sari rated this movie7/10Good
- 20.March.2009
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- by: sethdellinger
- sethdellinger rated this movie
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