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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0012236120483
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Special Edition, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: Lions Gate
Manufacturer: Lions Gate
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Lions Gate
Region Code: 1
Release Date: May 18, 2004
Running Time: 112 minutes
Sales Rank: 2714
Studio: Lions Gate
Theatrical Release Date: March 06, 1987
Editorial Review:
Amazon.com:
Set in Harlem and New Orleans in 1955, this supernatural thriller stirred a brief controversy when released in 1987 because some scenes featuring Lisa Bonet (then a popular cast member of The Cosby Show) were considered too sexually explicit to be rated R. The edited material was restored for the unrated video release, and the movie now makes a fitting double bill with Fallen, with its similar plot about a sullen detective (Mickey Rourke) who is hired to find a missing person by a shady client with pointy fingernails named Louis Cyphre (Lucifer, get it?), played with subtle menace by Robert De Niro. Rourke's investigation leads him into an underworld of voodoo and forbidden desires, and as the mystery unfolds director Alan Parker fills every scene with conspicuous style and atmospheric excess, compelling critic Pauline Kael to observe that, 'Parker simply doesn't have the gift of making evil seductive, and he edits like a flasher.' And yet, this movie does cast a spell of its own (Roger Ebert's review was considerably more charitable), and the performances of Rourke, De Niro, Bonet, and Charlotte Rampling are well suited to the ominous mood. --Jeff Shannon
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Great on three accounts
Based on a great novel by William Hjortsberg (Fallen angel).
Great actors.
Great director.
One of the best crime films (with a touch of occultism) I've seen.
Rating:  - Angel Heart
Top Stars for a great drama with lots of thrills. Love The Black Magic perspective. Bounty Hunter with an attitude!
Rating: - One of the best Beelzebub films ever made
"Angel Heart" will not only leave you feeling terrified; it will leave you sick, afraid, and wanting to take three hot showers to get the grime off your soul. The hallmark of a great film: one that you see as a youngin and that sticks in your mind till you see it 13 or 14 plus years later. And wow, did this one stick.
Mickey Rourke (appropriately) is fantastic as Harold Angel (aka...find out for yourself) who is hired by a very eloquent, ponytailed individual with a knack for seeing ... Read More
Rating: - Rourke, De Niro, and Bonet create a Gothic cult classic
Angel Heart is what director Alan Parker envisioned a brilliant mixture of Raymond Chandler film noir mixed with the Gothic and occult. Mickey Rourke in one of his best performances plays Harry Angel. Angel is a private investigator very low on the food chain in Brooklyn. He only gets work based on his last name starting with the letter A. However a mysterious and dangerous businessman named Louis Cyphre (Robert De Niro) finds him and contracts him to track down a crooner from the thirties named Johnny ... Read More
Rating: - An Eye For an Eye
An Eye For An Eye
In the 1987 film, Angel Heart, director Alan Parker elaborately relays to his audience the underlying theme that a person, despite his or her best attempt, cannot cheat and prosper in life. Utilizing a vast array of symbolism, cultural ideology, and clever subterfuge, Parker portrays the unsuccessful attempt of his main character, Harold Angel (Mickey Rourke), to 'have his cake and eat it too' by cheating both God and Satan.
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