The Crow: City of Angels (1996) on Netflix
R19961h 24mActionFantasyThriller
Ashe Corven and his son Danny are killed after witnessing Judah Earl's dealers murder a fellow dealer. A crow brings Ashe back, and tattoo artist Sarah Mohr follows it to the harbor.
- Netflix3.6/5
- IMDb4.6/1023,593 votes
- Rotten Tomatoes11%
Trailer
Plot summary
In Los Angeles, Judah Earl controls a drug operation. When mechanic Ashe Corven and his young son Danny come upon Judah's men killing another dealer, they are slain as well, and their bodies are thrown into the harbor. Sarah Mohr, a tattoo artist who keeps painting scenes of death and rebirth, keeps seeing the two of them in her dreams. On All Saints' Day a crow enters her apartment and leads her to the water, where Ashe rises. She brings him to her home and tells him he is dead; he flees into the night and returns to the house he lived in. Sarah explains that the crow restored him so he can punish those responsible.
Cast
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Crow: City of Angels (1996)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Jon Bon Jovi was offered the lead role of Ashe Corven in January 1995; a meeting with O'Barr and Pressman went well, but the contrast between the singer's music and the film's gothic style held him back from getting the part.
- Pope, the film's director, lost complete control of it when producers Bob Weinstein and Harvey Weinstein stepped in and ordered drastic reediting to match the structure of the original; Pope refused to see their "director's cut" and avoided returning to feature films for over two decades.
- Screenwriter David S. Goyer agreed to write the film only if its protagonist were played by a woman; his pitch, partly set in Victorian-era England with a rebirthed Jack the Ripper as the villain, was approved by Miramax and then scrapped in favor of a film led by "a guy who looks like Brandon Lee".
- O'Barr, given the first attempt at writing the sequel, pitched The Crow: The Bride, in which a woman is resurrected after being killed on her wedding day; Miramax executives rejected it, claiming "no one is going to see an action movie with a female lead".
- Composer Graeme Revell had only eight days to write and record the score for The Crow: City of Angels, and because the producers refused to spend money on an orchestra he reused the first film's score and added Latin guitar.
- The Crow: City of Angels opened at number 1 in the U.S. and Canada with $9,785,111 in its opening weekend, a record for the Labor Day Weekend.
