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The National Mirror is a tabloid that reports on unexplained phenomena. Its editor, Vartan Malt, receives a tip about a woman in a small Iowa town who lives with an angel, and sends three staff members to look into it: Frank Quinlan; Huey Driscoll, a photographer who owns the paper's star, Sparky the Wonder Dog; and Dorothy Winters, an angel expert. At Pansy Milbank's boarding house they meet her tenant Michael, who has wings and a cookie-like smell but also smokes, drinks beer and loves sugar. Michael says he is an archangel, and Pansy boasts that he defeated Lucifer in the War in Heaven. He explains that archangels are given missions from God and are not barred from the pleasures of physical incarnation.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Michael (1996)
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- Released on Christmas Day, Michael finished number one at the box office that weekend, grossing $17,435,711, roughly $3.4 million more than second-place Jerry Maguire, which was in its third week.
- The dance scene and other location shots were filmed at the community center of Holy Trinity Catholic Church in New Corn Hill, Texas, and on country roads near Walburg, Texas, as well as at Texas' Gruene Hall.
