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Angel Heart
on DVD (1987)
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| Starring: |
Mickey Rourke, Robert De Niro, Lisa Bonet, Charlotte Rampling |
| Director: |
Alan Parker |
| Studio: |
OPTIMUM |
| Run time: |
109 mins |
| Certificate: |
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| Genres: |
Drama |
| Languages: |
English |
| Dubbed: |
French, German, Spanish |
| Subtitles: |
Dutch, English, French, German, Portuguese, Spanish, Turkish |
| Released: |
27/12/2000
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Brief synopsis 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.
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Critics Reviews
Radio Times
In Alan Parker's unpleasant, tense thriller set in 1950s New Orleans, Mickey Rourke plays the New York private detective who's trying to locate a missing person for sinister client Robert De Niro. The trail leads towards voodoo rites and other “gumbo”-jumbo. Rourke's naked romp with Lisa Bonet, as blood drips from the ceiling, caused considerable controversy and received attention from the censors, though you might think the things that really need a good snip are De Niro's fingernails. The story is utter nonsense, dressed up by Parker with much visual hype, and with Rourke, De Niro and Charlotte Rampling contributing performances just the right side of self-parody.
Halliwell's Film Guide
He does, literally, in pursuit of a missing person who's opted out of a pact with the devil. Thoroughly unpleasant in detail, this wallow in the private eye cult constantly takes the eye with its pictorial qualities, even at its most nauseating.
Time Out
A first-person Faustian detective novel presents quite a problem to the screenwriter, and Parker's alterations to...
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