Angel Heart | 
| Director: Alan Parker
Actors: Mickey Rourke, Robert De Niro, Lisa Bonet, Charlotte Rampling, Brownie Mcghee
Studio: Live / Artisan
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Rating:  111 reviews
Sales Rank: 14941
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dvd-video, Widescreen, Ntsc
Languages: Spanish (Subtitled), English (Original Language)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 112 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.3 x 0.6
UPC: 012236118893
EAN: 0012236118893
ASIN: B00005N915
Theatrical Release Date: March 6, 1987
Release Date: March 26, 2002
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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
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 Mickey Rourke has The Juice in Angel Heart. December 30, 2008
G. Merritt (Boulder, CO)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The French consider Mickey Rourke America's greatest actor. In the 80s, they loved him for his "cool, his on-screen cruelty, his seediness, his sexual depravity" (New York Times Magazine, 11/30/08), and for his "rumpled, slightly dirty, sordid. . . rebel persona (Mickey Rourke Biography - Yahoo! Movies). Just don't ask Rourke if he considers the French "more enlightened" than American filmgoers.
After recently experiencing Rourke's newest film, The Wrestler at the Denver Film Festival, I revisited Angel Heart. It is a little better than I remembered it. It goes without saying that Rourke's name has become synonymous with his roles as Robert 'Boogie' Sheftell in Diner, Charlie Moran in The Pope of Greenwich Village, John Gray in 9 1/2 Weeks, James Wheeler in Wild Orchid, and Marv in Sin City.
Directed by Alan Parker and set in New York City and New Orleans, Angel Heart (1987) is a dark, erotic, mystery-thriller starring Rourke, Robert De Niro, and Lisa Bonet. The film effectively combines film noir and horror with a suspenseful, hard-boiled detective story. Rourke plays Harry Angel, a smarmy NYC private investigator, who is retained by Louis Cyphre (De Niro)--pronounced "Lucifer"--to locate Johnny Favorite, a missing 1950s' jazz crooner. As Angel attempts to locate Johnny Favorite, one informant after the next ends up murdered, and Angel becomes the number one suspect in the police investigation. Angel's own investigation ultimately leads him into a creepy culture of voodoo, Satanism, and bloody rituals of chicken sacrifices. In New Orleans, Angel encounters Favorite's 17-year-old daughter, Epiphany Proudfoot (Lisa Bonet), and the two become lovers before Angel makes a startling and truly twisted discovery. Most of the controversy surrounding Angel Heart involves the explicit sex scenes between Rourke and Bonet (of The Cosby Show). Recommended for anyone who likes Rourke or who appreciates really suspenseful film noir.
G. Merritt
 Does not play fair December 4, 2008
David B. Jones (San Jose CA)
One of the rules of screenplay writing is that you don't change the rules in the middle of the game. Going in, a movie makes an implied contract with the viewer. If it is going to break the laws of physics, perhaps introduce space aliens or ghosts for example, the viewer must be informed of the fantasy rules straight away. This film begins as a "noir," complete with the stereotypical cheap detective working out of his Nick Danger office in 1954 New York City. The ending does a switcheroo to a world in which voodoo works, devils are real, and Faustian contracts are in force. I felt betrayed and cheated.
The movie does have a quality film noir look and feel to it, and the acting is top notch. Micky Rourke and Robert De Niro delivered the compelling performances that we have come to expect from them. The film caused a sensation when released in 1987, because 20 year old Lisa Bonet, who played the wholesome Denise Huxtable on the Bill Cosby TV show, bared her all in a bloody sex and violence scene. Actually, she only bared her most. The movie was reportedly re-cut to avoid the dread "rated X" stigma, but the scene is quite gruesome none-the-less.
The "No Comment Commentary" feature with Rourke is good for a chuckle. He was quite obviously not happy with the assignment, and gave only marginally polite short answers and grunts to a frustrated interviewer, while petting a small dog. How did he prepare for the shoot? He learned his lines and showed up, he said. He explained that it was at a time in his life when he didn't really care to be making films. There's another feature on the "real" face of voodoo, that is not worth the mouse clicks it takes to navigate to it.
 Great on three accounts July 29, 2008
Kjell Einar Erstad (Bergen, Norway)
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.
Angel Heart June 2, 2008
David Herrera (Bay Area, CA.)
Top Stars for a great drama with lots of thrills. Love The Black Magic perspective. Bounty Hunter with an attitude!
One of the best Beelzebub films ever made May 28, 2008
J from NY (New York)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
"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 through bulls**t. And wow, does he. Robert DeNiro is Satan himself, and he pays Angel very well to discover the whereabouts of a man who is closer to home than one might think. One the way he encounters some really interesting things: gorgeous voodoo mambo priestesses sacrificing chickens, a blues band which plays very well but does odd stuff between songs, doctors who fill Bibles with bullets and shoot dope all day, palm readers who have strange accessories--real strange--and finally the inescapable grip of a hellish, perverse fate. This is subtle, disgusting, creepy, surreal, poetic, and occult all over. Any lover of horror has got to check this out.
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