We're No Angels | 
| Director: Neil Jordan
Actors: Robert De Niro, Sean Penn, Demi Moore, Hoyt Axton, Bruno Kirby
Studio: Paramount
Category: DVD
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Rating:  24 reviews
Sales Rank: 23637
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Subtitled, Widescreen, Surround Sound, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), French (Original Language), Latin (Original Language), English (Subtitled)
Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 101 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: PARD321544D
ISBN: 079219845X
UPC: 097363215448
EAN: 9780792198451
ASIN: B00015HX72
Theatrical Release Date: December 15, 1989
Release Date: February 17, 2004
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Product Description
A COUPLE OF ESCAPED CONVICTS ON THE RUN FIND REFUGE WITH THE CHURCH WHEN THEY ARE MISTAKEN FOR TWO PRIESTS.
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It's hard to imagine what any of the extremely talented people involved in this drastic misfire were thinking. Certainly the film was not short of talent: it had director Neil Jordan (The Crying Game), writer David Mamet (The Untouchables), and movie stars Robert De Niro, Sean Penn, and Demi Moore. Instead of remaking the charming 1955 comedy, which starred Humphrey Bogart and Peter Ustinov, Mamet concocted a virtually laugh-free script in which Penn and De Niro play escaped convicts disguised as priests who are supposedly visiting a shrine in a small town. The closest this film comes to comedy is De Niro's embarrassing mugging (it's endless) and Penn's dumb-bunny routine. Suggested for film students who want to learn what not to do. --Marshall Fine
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 Very funny film, DeNiro and Penn are terrific together-H. Axton + John C. O'Reilly, too! March 23, 2009
Max Dembo (Los Angeles)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This film did terrible in the theatre but I like it a lot. DeNiro and Penn (Especially Penn) are hilarious in this story of 2 escaped convicts-thieves and their attempts to get into Canada from the U.S., all the while masquerading as priests.
The set design and costumes are super. So is the direction and David Mamet script. My favorite scene is Penn's "sermon" from a Colt .45 advertisment! Penn shows that he can do comedy, and do it very well. His character has an charming innocence that works well. Hoyt Axton and John C. O'Reilly also give funny performances along with Wallace Shawn. I love the DVD cover, also. I had the VHS but bought the DVD because I like it so much. The cinematography alone made it worth re-buying. Check it out!
Funny Funny! February 8, 2009
K. Olson (Lansing, IL)
I ordered this DVD because my fiance told me he saw it once and it was a really funny movie. I got it at a great price on here, so I ordered it for him as a surprise. He was right! It is a riot!
 feel-good movie November 22, 2008
D. K. Stokes
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Robert DeNiro and Sean Penn are 1920s-era convicts who are dragged along when a vicious killer escapes the electric chair. They end up in a town near the Canadian border, and are mistaken for a pair of priests expected at the local monastery.
So they masquerade as priests while looking for an opportunity to cross the border into Canada. An opportunity presents itself in the form of a procession/pilgrimage to the church's sister church across the border. Each priest participating has to bring along someone who needs help, so they decide on the deaf daughter of local laundress and prostitute, played by Demi Moore.
This version (there's a 1955 version, but there's no similarity between the movies at all) is billed as a comedy, but it's much more a drama, or maybe an allegory, though I don't have the time or inclination to delve into what it's an allegory for. There are humorous moments, to be sure, but it's not a laugh-aloud comedy at all.
It's about life-changing events, about miracles. We never do learn why DeNiro and Penn's characters were in prison to begin with, but we don't need to know. They begin as buddies, but the masquerade affects them in different ways. Penn's character thrives in the monastic life, despite, or maybe because of his ignorance. DeNiro and Moore's characters are world-weary and cynical, but they too are affected by the miraculous.
The movie leaves it up to the viewers to decide if the miracles are divine or human, but there's just enough mystery to allow you to believe if you want to.
We're No Angels leaves me with the same sort of feeling that Christmas movies like Miracle on 34th Street do--a kind of uplifted feeling, and a renewed faith in the human spirit. Or maybe I'm just feeling sappy.
 Don't waste your time August 5, 2008
Liese A. Thomas (Bartlett, TN)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I bought this because I thought my family would enjoy seeing a newer version of "We're No Angels" after enjoying the 1955 Bogart version so much. (Great film!) After previewing the Robert De Niro version last night, I threw it in the trash. Demi Moore's partial nudity and language makes it inappropriate for family viewing. The comedy was not done well enough to make me laugh even once. Sean Penn's character was the only one that made me watch the film to the end; I wanted to see how he turned out.
redundancy costs double December 28, 2007
Roger R. Hurm
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
I ordered the movie "we're no angels". When I could find no way to continue to buy it, I cancelled the transaction.....I thought. Your system saved my first order. I ended up with two copies. It made a nice Christmas present ,but I wish your system was better.
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