Albert Macklin, Bibi Besch, David Dukes, Emmanuelle Béart, Michael E. Knight ...( see more  see more... ) , Peter Kowanko , Phil Brock , Phoebe Cates , Vinny Argiro

Jim is soon to be married to Patty, but when he wakes up after a bachelor party thrown by his friends, he finds an injured angel in his pool. When Patty sees her, she thinks he's seeing someone else a...( read more  read more... )nd gets upset and tells her father. Now he has to figure out how to; cure the angel, tell Patty what happened, keep his friends from taking the angel to the papers, and keep Patty's father from killing him. It's no wonder he has a headache.

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PG, 105 min.

Directed by: Tom McLoughlin

Release Date: January 1, 1987

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DVD Release Date: May 21, 2002

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  • November 9, 2007
    A hilarious film!
  • September 19, 2009
    Cute and lighthearted movie. That was one nutball of a fiance... and Emmanuelle really fits the role of an angel. :}
  • September 1, 2009
    A story about a guy who falls in love with an angel who he happened to find injured in his pool. Emmanuelle Beart, to this day, plays the best angel I've ever seen. She is what I would think an angel would look and act like. She didn't even have to talk, just look at you. I belie...( read more)ve they could of cleaned up the flight scenes of her, but that's the 80's for you. A shame the majority of her movies are in French after this one. They're either hard to find or they don't have English subtitles.
  • August 13, 2009
    i would watch this movie over and over
  • July 12, 2009
    I used to watch this movie as a child.
  • May 26, 2009
    I really love this movie... so touching...
  • April 2, 2009
    one of my favorite movies in the 90's.....i love emmanuellie beart, she sooo innocent....very angelic....very fit for her role as an angel....and i also fell in love with michael e. knight....ive been looking for the copy of this movie coz i want to watch it over and over again....( read more)...though its very impossible, i wish i can have an angel too
  • April 1, 2009
    Good movie. Romantic. One of my favorite classic movies. And I wish to see this movie again, all over again.
  • March 23, 2009
    A Classic, Very cute Movie.. I love the 80's
  • March 13, 2009
    i love the story, i wish i had an angel too :)

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  • Sunkissedmyass
    July 11, 2007
    i forgot to mention, that i couldn't find it because i couldn't remeber the name of the movie.hehe
  • Sunkissedmyass
    July 11, 2007
    i was only 6, when i saw this moive, and for years i have been searching, for it, asking my mother time and again. she was amazed that i remeber a movie that was hers and she didnt. but i fell in love with it. i have checked video stores for ever! i am soooooooooo overwhelmed, that i have finally found it, THANK YOU THANK YOU, flixster!!!!!!
  • seeyoulater72
    May 20, 2007
    Love MEK. He's a hottie

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