Word: angeles
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Angel Heart...
...TRUSTING KIND OF GUY. I was aware of the enormous controversy surrounding Angel Heart, including TriStar Pictures' battle with the ratings board over the film's initial X rating. So, when the ad for Angel Heart asserted that "Everything You've Heard Is True," my voyeuristic impulses got the best of me. I trusted TriStar, and director Alan Parker, to provide an afternoon's worth of titillation and was reassured when the audience, packed with thrill-seekers galore, from middle-aged businessmen to hormone-charged teenagers, looked ready for the same...
...unfortunately, I'm a little confused. I'm not sure who to blame for the fiasco that is Angel Heart. Should I sue TriStar for false advertising, or Alan Parker for the waste and abuse of directorial talent? For Angel Heart is not the movie TriStar wants it to be--a sexually charged murder mystery centered around the disrobing of Cosby Show sibling Lisa Bonet. Mr. Parker is shooting for something greater, more profound--an intellectually and sexually charged murder mystery centered around the devil, featuring the disrobing of Ms. Bonet. I've been...
Ostensibly, Angel Heart deals with hard-boiled detective Harry Angel's (Mickey Rourke) quest for a long missing crooner Johnny Favorite. Favorite has been absent since his return from World War II, where a head wound left his a vegetable and permanently disfigured. Angel is commissioned in this fruitless search by the mysterious Louis Cyphre (Robert DeNiro) who needs proof of Favorite's death in order to collect collateral from a contract he had with the singer...
...Angel's search leads him from a mental hospital in upstate New York to an unfriendly Baptist church in Harlem, and, in the film's climactic sequences, to the dank swampland surrounding New Orleans. It is here that Angel discovers the nubile Epiphany Proudfoot (Bonet), as well as the truth about Favorite, Cyphre, and himself...