Andie MacDowell, Bob Hoskins, Carla Gugino

After the box-office success of Phenomenon, John Travolta continued to charm audiences with this 1996 comedy-fantasy in which he plays a grubby angel who's got one last good deed to do before h...( read more  read more... )eading back to heaven. Living peacefully in the rural Iowa home of an old, friendly motel owner (Jean Stapleton), the winged Michael (Travolta) is hardly the image of a perfect angel. He's scruffy, unshaven, eats sweetened cereal by the box-full and chain-smokes all day long. But when tabloid reporters (William Hurt, Robert Pastorelli) learn of Michael's alleged existence and head to Iowa to check him out, Michael soon realizes that it's his task to see that Hurt falls in love with an "angel expert" (Andie MacDowell) and breaks free from his habitually cynical attitude. There's more to the story, of course (and Chasing Amy fans will recognize Joey Lauren Adams as a waitress who charms the angel), but Michael is more about the effect that this enchanting angel has on the earthbound humans around him. Whether he's chipping away at Hurt's skepticism or attracting a crowd of women on a truck-stop dance floor, Michael is an enchanting figure, and Travolta plays him with just the right tone of humor, reverence, and effervescent charm. Sure, it's lightweight fluff, but director Nora Ephron specializes in lightweight fluff, and Michael is the kind of feel-good movie that never wears out its welcome. --Jeff Shannon

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PG, 106 min.

Directed by: Nora Ephron

Release Date: December 25, 1996

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DVD Release Date: August 26, 1997

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  • May 11, 2009
    I've never viewed an angel in this way so at first I was really shocked at the portrayal of what I and most of society believes an angel should be. But by the end of the movie, your ideas have changed about the character and you see there is more than one way to reach the favore...( read more)d result.
  • August 23, 2008
    Very cute. Not too much to the plot, but it was adorable nonetheless.
  • April 12, 2008
    Michael is an angel on one last mission before going back to heaven.
  • January 6, 2008
    I'm not that kind of angel.
  • January 3, 2008
    OMG i loved this as a kid
  • November 12, 2009
    Funny, funny, funny. This was a great movie about a fallen angel. A few biblical references that were fun. Not too biblically correct, just fun and entertaining.
  • November 8, 2009
    he he he.. pelm aneh
  • November 3, 2009
    Un angel que fuma? jajajaja
  • October 29, 2009
    !Comercial or Stupid! :|
  • September 7, 2009
    Cute film. I use a line from this film as one of my "Error" messages on the computer.

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  • MrsJackHarkenss
    June 11, 2007
    Ok. Watching John Travolta as a dancing angel makes for a very good movie. I love Michael.

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