Mickey Rourke, Robert De Niro, Lisa Bonet

A gumshoe private investigator is hired by a mysterious and malevolent client to find a missing crooner who owes him on a debt, but when the PI starts his investigation he is thwarted by the murders o...( read more  read more... )f his possible witnesses and haunted by unexplainable demonic nightmares. As he nears and nears his catch, the identity of the missing person is closer to him than he thinks.

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R, 112 min.

Directed by: Alan Parker

Release Date: March 6, 1987

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DVD Release Date: June 23, 1998

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  • September 24, 2009
    Great film, DeNiro?s Satan is superb. Whatever happened to Lisa Bonet?
  • February 28, 2009
    I'm not in the least surprised that other reviewers either love this or hate it to bits - I also bet that it's the younger users to whom the nature of the visual narrative of the film - the way it's all told to us, the viewer - may seem a bit dated. And to a point, they're right ...( read more)- "Angel Heart" is totally an eighties film, a film of the decade in which the movie world was discovering a new visual language in video and playfully indulged in experimenting with its new toy. It was literally speaking to a generation straight out of MTV classrooms and workshops and is in that sense very similar to stuff like "Betty Blue". And true enough, there is a lot to remark on what can today be seen as a slightly poseur-ish "one too many revolving fans, angularly lit staircases and heartbeat sounds in the soundtrack" kind of thing. However, "Angel Heart" does carry a tremendous amount of energy thanks to its imagery, which will stick to the viewer's mind in exactly the same way a sweaty shirt sticks to the body in sticky weather. Besides, the impeccably drawn cast led by Rourke does a truly remarkable job - that's beyond question - the sets are great, production design and cinematography are very evocative, the soundtrack is memorable and the story is one of the crucial ones. I personally love it.

    Give it a go by all means.
  • October 24, 2008
    Detective Angel (Mickey Rourke) is hired by a mysterious, sartorial client (Robert De Niro) to track down a missing man, and the search leads him to new Orleans and a voodoo cult. Supernatural film noir with a very chilling twist, if you don't guess it early on.
  • September 27, 2008
    Alan Parker is one of those guys that doesn't try to do the same thing twice (the guy did The Wall for Christ sakes). What he does with Angel Heart is take a well worn formula (the gum shoe detective) and give it a bit of a twist (supernatural voodoo) that gives us a film that ke...( read more)eps us riveted as we follow Harry Angel (Mickey Rourke) from Brooklyn to New Orleans to Hell.

    Angel is hired by the mysterious Louis Cypher (Robert DeNiro who seems to have transformed into Scorsese on coke) to find a mysterious musician who owes him a debt. The simple plot follows Angel through many places and many corpses until the revelation is uncovered.

    Simple. Yet complex. You sit through most of the film thinking it's a basic private dick dick, but it soon becomes more complicated than that. That's why the film works. The script is good, though there are some scenes that seem to need prodding along. Parker's world is dirty, but not dark. He shines the light on the dirt, keeping the film from going to noirish. Rourke and DeNiro are great with DeNiro playing a true Cypher throughout the film.

    Overall Angel Heart is another great piece of film making from Alan Parker. The film does have a twist ending before we expected twist endings that is still a bit predictable, but the ride getting there is always half the fun.
  • September 18, 2008
    An all-around cool movie, Angel Heart boasts that same surreal, creepy feeling as Jacob's Ladder. Unlike Jacob's Ladder, though, Angel Heart's story is a very easy one to guess, despite its twists. Still, the excellent acting, moody atmosphere and quirky characters make it a gr...( read more)eat flick overall. Check it out.
  • November 6, 2009
    Mickey Rourke con quel cappotto da investigatore privato era perfetto.
    Folle.
  • October 28, 2009
    hard ending, well made
  • October 6, 2009
    defn8ly not interested
  • September 30, 2009
    This movie gave me the creeps.
  • September 28, 2009
    The mysterious Louis Cyphre hires P.I. Harry Angel to find a man by the name of Johnny Favorite. When suspects start dropping dead around him during his investigation, Harry finds himself biting off more than he can chew.

    Eerie and noirish, it was very good.

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