Comedy

Almost an Angel

Paramount Pictures

Ironbark Films

United States of America

English

Paul Hogan

Elias Koteas

Linda Kozlowski

Doreen Lang

Douglas Seale

Larry Miller

Charlton Heston

Stephanie Hodge

David Alan Grier

Jason Marsden

Randy Vasquez

Peter Vasquez

Michael Alldredge

Ruth Warshawsky

Parley Baer

Robert Sutton

Steven Brill

Richard Grove

Hal Landon Jr.

Hank Worden

Vickilyn Reynolds

Ben Slack

Troy Curvey Jr.

Candi Milo

Tony Veneto

Joe Dallesandro

Don Ross

John Cornell

Gene LeBell

Ronnie Rondell Jr.

Jack Gill

Andy Gill

Noon Orsatti

Ernie F. Orsatti

Maurice Jarre

David Stiven

April Ferry

Ken Diaz

Bernie Cutler

Dianne Crittenden

Joe Montenegro

Russell Boyd

Kelly Van Horn

Henry Bumstead

Mark Turnbull

You and me boss, we make a good team.

Terry Dean is an exceptional career criminal, after his release from prison he is hit by a car whilst saving a young boy. He awakes in what appears to be a heavenly place, and much to his surprise he is visited by a deity and told that he is on probation, he is in short...almost an angel.

Paul Hogan will forever be known as the bloke from Crocodile Dundee, a highly efficient fish out of water comedy that became a huge hit. However, the sequels and his other subsequent film's are either roundly ignored or highly frowned upon. That's a shame because Almost An Angel is a very engaging comedy, the sort of picture that stands up like a Capraesque piece for the 90s. It's the sort of fable that cheers one up when the blues draw in and then turn into a blackly dark cloud, yes it be true, old craggy faced Paul Hogan has the gift of comedy. True enough the doses of sentiment are at times like a treacle itch to be scratched, but is that a bad thing? Watching a street wise criminal turning his less than honourable skills into a thing of goodness?

The film has many visual gags to go with the ream of religious ones that flow within the piece, be it Hogan attempting to fly or a quiet word about Elvis, Almost An Angel delights if one accepts the nature of the beast. Linda Kozlowski again teams up with Hogan (after the earlier Crocodile Dundee pairing), here she has very little to do but she slots in very nicely, even if a pre-end credits sequence does her and everyone else no favours at all. The best actor on show is the criminally undervalued Elias Koteas, playing the wheelchair bound Steve Garner, he exudes a believability factor that many modern day actors can learn from, where, the ability to act with just your face is high art if it's done correctly. Check out both the first and last scenes that Koteas shares with Hogan, great stuff that seems to have been forgotten due to the disdain shown for this particular film.

I rate it 7/10 because it hits my spot when I need a pick me up, perhaps that is too high in this age where comedy is the hardest genre to succeed in? But don't believe the low rating here on this site, it's a delightful little comedy that is far from perfect, but hell! It's a heavenly piece knowingly incorporating the serious side of religious beliefs.

Almost An Angel 1990 TV trailer

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Paul Hogan

Elias Koteas

Linda Kozlowski

Doreen Lang

Douglas Seale

Larry Miller

Charlton Heston

Stephanie Hodge

David Alan Grier

Jason Marsden

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