Horror

Mystery

Angel Heart

Winkast Film Productions

Union

Carolco Pictures

United Kingdom

United States of America

English

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Mickey Rourke

Robert De Niro

Lisa Bonet

Charlotte Rampling

Stocker Fontelieu

Brownie McGhee

Michael Higgins

Elizabeth Whitcraft

Eliott Keener

Charles Gordone

Dann Florek

Kathleen Wilhoite

George Buck

Judith Drake

Pruitt Taylor Vince

Dave Petitjean

Rick Washburn

Neil Newlon

Karen Davis

Gerald Orange

Trevor Jones

Gerry Hambling

Risa Bramon Garcia

Billy Hopkins

Brian Morris

Michael Seresin

Mario Kassar

William Hjortsberg

Alan Parker

Alan Marshall

Elliott Kastner

Simon Bosanquet

Aude Bronson-Howard

Kristi Zea

Armin Ganz

Robert J. Franco

Leslie A. Pope

Andrew G. Vajna

Maher Ahmad

Anthony Dunne

Joseph Petruccio Sr.

Roger Dietz

John A. Kelly

Richard A. Ventre

Jean-Pierre Lelong

William Trent

Robert J. Litt

Steve Maslow

Elliot Tyson

Harry Madsen

Michael Levine

Mike Roberts

Larry McConkey

George Kontaxis

Alvin Milliken

Louis Falco

Anna Wright

Clayton Townsend

Jonathan Filley

Tommy Allen

Jeremy Conway

Leonard Green

Paul LeBlanc

Victor DeNicola

David Forrest

Carla White

Ric Kidney

Warren Clymer

Dan Davis

Anthony Baldasare

Martha Fishkin

Michael L. Benson

J.C. Brotherhood

David K. Nami

Pamela Katz

Susan Starr

Haddon Hufford

Michael Hunold

Kevin Murphy

Michael Papadopoulos

Jamie Silverstein

Allen Stillman

Constance Sawyer

Dennis J. Lootens

Eamonn O'Keeffe

George Pattison

Larry Huston

Heidi Levitt

Lisa Peterson

Stephanie Samuel

Isabelle Kramer

Rick Landry

Danajean Cicerchi

Alvin Perry

Heidi Shulman

Elin Bjorkman

Barbara Hause

Robin Squibb

Courtney Pine

Catherine Bott

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"Harry Angel" (Mickey O'Rourke) lives a pretty hand-to-mouth existence as a New York PI when he is hired to track down a musician named "Johnny Favorite". Now this fella really doesn't want to be found, and after a while our street-smart investigator begins to contemplate that maybe this search isn't really all that his employer "Louis Cyphre" (a Rasputin-esque Robert De Niro) has in mind. As the search becomes more intricate, "Angel" finds himself having doors slammed in his face, or even worse before he is immersed in a world of voodoo in a distinctly unwelcoming New Orleans. Corpses are starting to pile up and "Angel" is starting to get cold feet. Can he stay the course and discover the whereabouts of his quarry? Can he also discover quite why the enigmatic "Cyphre" wanted him on the case in the first place? This is one of those whodunit's where the quest itself is not one of the more riveting parts of the plot. "Angel" has an ability to turn almost everyone he sees into metaphorical stone - including Charlotte Rampling's rather mysterious "Margaret" - what's going on? Alan Parker keeps the Hjortsberg story moving along quite faithfully to the book, allowing us to gradually get a sense that all is not as it seems, that poor old "Angel" is being manipulated and that things are probably not going to end well for him! O'Rourke carries that off really well - he injects a swarthiness and grit to his character who clearly isn't quite as hard as he would like people to think, and De Niro - though infrequently on screen - also manages to create that slight sense of malevolence as the penny begins to drop for all watching. It's a bit slow out of the gate, but it does build well to a denouement that is amongst the best in this extensive genre.

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Mickey Rourke

Robert De Niro

Lisa Bonet

Charlotte Rampling

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Brownie McGhee

Michael Higgins

Elizabeth Whitcraft

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