City of Angels
Seth is an angel who accompanies the spirits of the recently dead to the ever after. But he begins finding his job difficult as he falls in love with Maggie, a beautiful heart surgeon. Now Seth must decide if love is more important than eternal peace.
15 July 1931, Chicago, Illinois, USA
22 January 1990, Burbank, California, USA
4 July 1944, Racine, Wisconsin, USA
1 July 1962, Chicago, Illinois, USA
7 August 1951, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
27 July 1961, Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, USA
22 August 1958, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
26 June 1970, Joliet, Illinois, USA
December 22, 2010
Glossy romance as an angel falls for a surgeon.
September 18, 2008
A good deal better than it has any right to be.
February 09, 2006
Funnier than Wenders' version, and it also succeeds in visualising LA as a magical city while dealing intelligently with the themes of mortality, sacrifice, free will, and the mixed blessings of the human condition.
January 02, 2005
City of Angels is the sort of compromised movie that could have been almost good, but decided to be a great big hit instead.
April 12, 2002
A lovely oddity.
June 01, 2006
As a remake it's not as poetic as Wenders' masterpiece Wings of Desire, but it's supremely mounted (by ace lenser John Seale) and contains touching performances from Nicolas Cage and Meg Ryan deviating from their respective screen images.
February 14, 2001
It manages to leave a pleasant afterglow for those in the mood for its kind of loving.
June 18, 2002
My face had been locked in that goofy, awestruck expression you experience only in Spielberg movies. City of Angels demonstrates the best kind of emotionally manipulative filmmaking.
September 18, 2008
The movie's eerie, slightly menacing vision of black-clad angels lurking in the shadowy corners of unsuspecting lives is genuinely haunting.
December 06, 2004
City of Angels raises theological questions, albeit in a somewhat pedestrian manner, and makes them an integral part of its otherwise formulaic plot.
April 27, 2007
Strains to achieve the enchantingly sublime, but ends up sinking to the depressingly ridiculous.
April 09, 2005
An emotionally uninvolving flick that attempts to play on the heart strings of the viewer and fails in its effort.
