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Angel Heart [Blu-ray]
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Genre | Thriller |
Format | AC-3, Multiple Formats, Blu-ray, Color, Subtitled, DTS Surround Sound, Dolby, NTSC, Widescreen |
Contributor | Robert De Niro, Mickey Rourke, Alan Marshall, Elliott Kastner, Alan Parker, Carolco |
Language | English |
Runtime | 1 hour and 52 minutes |
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Product Description
Harry Angel is a cheap private eye who specializes in divorce and insurance claims. He is asked to go to Harlem to meet wealthy, mysterious Louis Cyphre by his lawyer, Winesap. The intellectual, goateed Cyphre pays Angel to find a 1940's crooner named Johnny Favorite who reneged on a contract and disappeared 12 years ago. Angel goes to a New York sanitarium but finds that the singer injured during the war and suffering from amnesia, has been transferred, according to hospital records. The trail leads to New Orleans, and what ensues is an ever-deepening mystery that comes to involve voodoo, Satanism, and the supernatural.
Product details
- Aspect Ratio : 1.78:1
- MPAA rating : R (Restricted)
- Product Dimensions : 7.5 x 0.7 x 5.4 inches; 0.01 ounces
- Audio Description: : English
- Director : Alan Parker
- Media Format : AC-3, Multiple Formats, Blu-ray, Color, Subtitled, DTS Surround Sound, Dolby, NTSC, Widescreen
- Run time : 1 hour and 52 minutes
- Release date : November 24, 2009
- Actors : Mickey Rourke, Robert De Niro
- Dubbed: : French
- Subtitles: : Spanish, English
- Producers : Alan Marshall, Elliott Kastner
- Studio : Lionsgate Home Entertainment
- ASIN : B002NPY7E0
- Country of Origin : USA
- Number of discs : 1
- Best Sellers Rank: #28,174 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
- #754 in Mystery & Thrillers (Movies & TV)
- #1,274 in Horror (Movies & TV)
- #2,619 in Drama Blu-ray Discs
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Nothing new for Robert DeNiro - he is pretty much always weird.
Sad, but the cute Lisa Bonet from The Cosby Show pretty much ruined her career with this movie. Too bad..I think that Bill Cosby tried to talk her out of doing it, but???
Hope, if you watch it, that you enjoy it for its dark voo doo theme.
In some ways the most fascinating level going on in "Angel Heart" is that Mickey Rourke seems to have been acting out the mythic story in his "real" life. The film is filled with parallels with "the actor's" own development - selling ones soul for stardom, losing the bargain, undergoing facial re-construction, etc.
...This isn't just being a great poetic actor (as Sean Penn has referred to him) - its being an iconic actor . . . and "Angel Heart" is an iconic film.
SPOILER ALERT - At that time, 1987, most people did not figure out the obvious (Louis Cyphre is Lucifer) as Mickey Rourke mispronounces the surname Cyphre's throughout the movie. I have noticed that the Amazon summary spoils the "secret" that Louis Cyphre is Lucifer. These days people divulge fact that De Niro is Lucifer immediately spoiling the secret.
Angel Heart and The Mission
De Niro was filming Angel Heart whilst also filming the epic movie - The Mission. Rumor has it that De Niro flew back to the US on weekends or quiet times on The Mission to complete Angel Heart. De Niro plays the bearded Mendoza in The Mission, and has a beard up until the second last scene in Angel Heart.
The story is simple yet brilliant. A man sells his soul for limited fame in World War II New York. We subsequently discover through Harold Angel's investigation that Johnny Liebling, cum Johnny Favorite who was called "golden tonsils" just prior to WWII with limited fame as a crooner. Like all alleged Faustian pacts with the Prince of Darkness it was short lived and a debt subsequently owed. Johnny Favorite thought that he had a legal occult loophole found in a n old ancient manuscript where there were incantations in Latin and Greek , and tried to avoid the horrific debt.
The Devil
De Niro's lines are brilliant with my favorite being: "Alas, how terrible is wisdom when it brings no profit to the wise." An excellent line that was borrowed from Oedipus Rex." The last juicy tit bit is De Miro's last appearance in Angel Heart. A few moments prior to the movie's ending, De Niro appears beardless Blink and you'll miss it - he is crouching outside Johnny Favorites' hotel room dressed all in black as a nun. Many re-watch Angel Heart again for this scene alone, as they ALL missed it in the repeated viewings. To this day, De Niro playing Louis Cyphre is the best on screen devil or Lucifer.
(NOTE: Another memorable actor playing Lucifer was then then relatively little known Viggo Morgenstein as Lucifer in the 1996 movie, The Prophecy)
SPECIAL FEATURES - As the story unfolds we are taken on a wild dark ride with the dark occult growing. In the SPECIAL FEATURES the director, Alan Parker, claims that the story moves south to Louisiana to highlight this fact that we are moving to the hot swamps of the Deep South which is to reprsent a step closer to hell. I missed the obvious and that is what I love about Angel Heart. Every time I watch Angel Heart I discover something new.
Mickey Rourke
One of Mickey Rourke's finest efforts. He guides us the audience through the unravelling of the story with the scene with De Niro in a Louisiana church being the crux of the film. Rourke is swearing in church with Louis Cyphre constantly reminding him of his surroundings to which Angel(Rourke) replies that he doesn't care as churches give him the creeps. Angel he that the is coming across too much religion. De Niro then says " they say there is just enough religion to make men hate each other, BUT, not enough to love one another."
There are rumors that Angel Heart may be re-made in 2013, I don't know why. We saw Total Recall re0made in 2012 and it was a useless effort as it no doubt, will be with Angel Heart. You cannot improve on perfection.
This is why Angel Heart is my favorite film as it is a simple story, brilliantly executed.
Five out of five !!!!