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This 1987 fantasy-comedy stars Michael E. Knight, Phoebe Cates, Emmanuelle Beart and David Dukes. This tells of Jim Sanders (Knight), an ill composer who is engaged to be married, but things change for him when he meets a wounded angel (Beart) who is sent to take him to heaven. Cates plays Jim's fiancée, Patty Winston who thinks he's cheating on her and gets jealous and Dukes plays Patty's father, Ed who is head of a cosmetics company. I grew up watching this and always liked it. It's got humorous and heartfelt moments, Knight and Beart have good chemistry, Beart is not only beautiful in this, but plays a very convincing angel and I like the atmospheric score. I recommend this good, underrated 80's flick.

If you're in the mood for a very light-weight fantasy love story, give it a try. It has some seriously over-the-top acting in places, but it's a cute story; its central characters are likable and charming, and the supporting cast has some pretty funny moments. It'll be in my DVD library one day. Trust me, you'll like it. How much? I couldn't let the earlier negative review go unanswered.

Spoiler follows.

The groom is a decent, likable guy who finds an injured angel in his pool after waking up the morning after his wild bachelor party. His fiancé finds the angel in his home the next morning and, thinking he is having an affair with a normal girl, spends the rest of the movie in a rage, trying to track her fiancé down to win him back or wreak revenge, or something. Meanwhile, he cares for the angel until her wing heals, while simultaneously trying to keep his wild, mischievous & capitalistic best friends from revealing her to the world. This is complicated by these recurring headaches he has. The man and the angel fall in love. Eventually though, the angel heals and flies away, about the same time that the man collapses with a stroke. The man is in a coma at the hospital being grieved for by his family and friends when the angel returns, in disguise. It turns out that the angel was originally sent to Earth to take the man's soul to heaven, but her mission was delayed. Now they both are ready, but she can't do it. The complication? She is in love with him. So what is an angel to do?

No spoilers here. The only spoiler is the wretched movie itself, trying to spoil the careers of anyone associated with it.

I kept waiting for it to get better, then for it to end. It only got worse as it went on. After an hour, I could barely stand it any more, but slogged on through to wallow in its full wretchedness.

Do angels not speak? I distinctly remember angels appearing and speaking in Bible stories. It would have been nice had writer/director Tom McLoughlin given some lines to the one actor in the movie we know has some talent - And that would be Emmanuelle Béart. But we only know that from seeing her other films, especially "Un coeur en hiver" and "L'Enfer."

This is one even a Béart completist should skip.

The 1980s had these types of movies that had a certain style of wacky humor that I think only appealed to the generation which grew up in the 1980s, like I did. That's why some people totally dismiss this movie. Some people would definitely find the "love bug" scene annoying, yet I found it sort of funny. However, I don't like annoying overacting from stupid more modern movies, "Date movie", "Epic movie" come to mind. Those two dreadful movies also had horrible toilet humor which thankfully these wacky 1980s movies lack.

There were definitely some overactors here, particularly from the hero Jim's (Michael Knight's) fiance Patty (Phoebe Cates) and her father Ed (the late David Dukes). Ed had comical levels of rage numerous times throughout the film including after Jim's rowdy goofball friends pulled a terrorist prank on his home during Patty's engagement party (although that was the one thing that's understandable to get angry about). Patty also had comical anger once Jim started nursing an angel that crashed into his back yard, since she insisted on thinking he was cheating on her with another woman, and she continued screaming hysterically and refusing to even hear Jim out.

Jim tried to show Patty he wasn't cheating on her and that she's a real angel, but Jim's stupidity didn't allow her to see the angel's wings. For some reason, when Jim decided to bring the angel up in front of Patty's house to show her the truth, he had a long trenchcoat over her hiding her wings. Why would he do that right then and there other then to create another movie scene where Patty will keep thinking Jim's cheating on her, and she can continue to break out in her comical rage? Jim had the same stupidity again when he brought the angel to a church and at just the moment where the priest walks out in front of them, Jim has wrapped a blanket over her wings so the priest thinks nothing more than them being two kids playing a prank. That old priest was an over the top character also, including while Jim was in the confessional booth with him.

However, not everyone saw the angel as just some woman, and some of them did see that she's an angel. Some of them got strangely mesmerized by this ethereal stare she gave people, including Jim's friends and a guy in the church (not the priest) who while mesmerized accidentally caught his sleeve on fire. Ed, who initially came over to tear Jim a new so-and-so, also got mesmerized into a complete trance when looking into the angel's ethereal eyes, and changed in an instant from his comical rage to floating in a pleasant glowing happiness, to changing back to his rage when she was gone (and then being attacked by Jim's neighbor's vicious dog). Ed hadn't forgotten his couple of pleasant moments seeing her and spent the rest of the movie obsessively tracking her down so he could bring her into his life on a full time basis, and he wanted to make her an international model for his cosmetics company. As for Ed's rage, us viewers are not the only ones who noticed it, note a scene where his employees during a board meeting seemed to view him as an ogre and were afraid of his temper while speaking up their business ideas.

Jim's buddy's sometimes crossed the line of being a little too much to watch, with them seeming to have college rowdiness and immaturity that hadn't quite left them yet. And them pretending to be terrorists at a civilized party, the kind of thing that could give the elderly guests a heart attack, was not something that I look at as a prank I'd just laugh off. I would immediately disown friends who did anything like that. They then basically spent the rest of the movie trying to exploit the angel and getting the news crew to her.

But overall, much of this movie still had alot of that goofy 1980s charm which I enjoyed, and some of the overacting scenes were pretty funny such as Patty screaming in her car when the song "Angel baby" played and her radio knob broke off so she couldn't turn the song off.

I also liked the bonding between Jim and the angel in the forrest, the angel flying, her mingling with the animals (plus a weird looking bear looking up at her as she flew), and there was the very 1980s music, which yes I like because I grew up in the 1980s

With my best classmate in university to see this film and we lost contact since graduation It seems first debut film for French actres Emanuel Piart! However, I don't like Phoebe Cates'playing this silly role but she's not heroine so she must did something bad to develop the plot. Story, I forgot nearly completely! Just remember the plot not so good. The hero actor? Couldn't remind his face~~~only two brilliant actresses and his bad. Troubled friends!

Due to one Japan BL drama inspired me this film, the one who plays angel must ~~pure beautiful~~~the scene Emanuel opened her eyes was pure beautiful.

I honestly have never heard of this before and I like the fact it's so different too! Emmanuelle Béart looked absolutely beautiful as the angel. She would definitely remind you of the angel pics in which you see normally in churches or restaurants. I was happy that her character and Michael E. Knight's character lived happily ever after. I would be absolutely disappointed if he was still engaged to Patty. The story wouldn't have made sense then! It would be desperate because you can tell by Jim, he wasn't at all happy to be with Patty. It was better for them not to be together. She was just such a show off and whiny. To be honest, you feel like you just want her not to be included in the story!

This was the best underrated movie I have ever saw in ages! I love the fact the music was heavenly! Maybe they should've added in Madonnas song "Just Like A Prayer", it would have made this film more extraordinary. Now at the same time, it's grand! I give this 10/10 because it's just wonderful the way it is!

This is a weakly hidden copy of Splash. Only Splash was better all around with an original plot and better characters. Another way to look at this movie is that it is a middle school version of a broadway play.