| | | Harry Angel is searching for the truth... Pray he doesn't find it.
Features: DVD, Special Edition, Widescreen, Aspect Ratio 1.85:1, Dolby Digital 5.1, English, Spanish, Subtitles
Through the footsteps of its lead character, Harry Angel, a down-and-out fifties Brooklyn gumshoe, Alan Parker's film Angel Heart takes us on a journey of violence and murder that canvasses the desperate streets of Harlem, smoke-filled jazz clubs of new Orleans, and ultimately to voodoo rituals in the sweltering swamps of Louisiana. Combined with the incredible performances of Mickey Rourke, Robert De Niro, Charlotte Rampling and Lisa Bonet in her feature film debut, Angel Heart surfaces as one of the most visually provocative American movies to date. Experience Angel Heart... A truly unsettling film experience.
"...full of striking, sensual, and frightening images..." Leonard Maltin's Movie & Video Guide
Editor's Note
In Alan Parker's ANGEL HEART, based on the novel FALLING ANGEL by William Hjortsberg, a New York City gumshoe is hired to find an aging blues singer. Harry Angel (Mickey Rourke) follows clues from the ominous ghettos of Harlem to the witchy backwoods of Louisiana, where he takes up with Epiphany Proudfoot (Lisa Bonet), the beautiful young daughter of a voodoo priestess, whom he believes will be able to shed light on the growing mystery surrounding the missing musician. As Angel closes in on the truth of the case, his contacts start turning up dead. He begins to suspect he might be next.Parker (MISSISSIPPI BURNING) threads a commentary on the limitations of modern Western society into his sensual, suspenseful thriller. As the story unfolds, Angel relies less and less on his failing, overwhelmed rational mind (and handgun) and more on Epiphany's ancient mojo. Rourke captures the unraveling protagonist perfectly, and Bonet adds an erotic and mysterious edge with her performance. Robert De Niro is both funny and malevolent as Angel's mysterious client, Louis Cyphre. Shimmering with a beguiling mist of the macabre, ANGEL HEART provides an unexpectedly haunting dose of gothic noir.
Plot Summary
Harry Angel is a 1950s gumshoe hired by a dark stranger to search for the perpetrator of a string of grisly murders leading from New York to the voodoo cults of backwoods New Orleans. Each step Angel takes in this film noir nightmare brings him nearer to the heat of hell.
| Features | "Voodoo In Angel Heart" Documentary | | Audio Commentary | | Audio: English Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Sound | | Cast And Crew Information | | Digitally Mastered | | Featurette | | Interactive Menus | | Interviews | | Production Notes | | Scene Access | | Subtitles: Spanish | | Theatrical Trailer | | Widescreen Presentation |
| Entertainment Reviews
 | Angel Heart - DVD Review By: Christopher Null - filmcritic.com DVD Reviews Published on: 11/13/2009 6:42 PM | |
A decade before Hollywood got obsessed with urban volcanoes, asteroid impacts, and Steve Prefontaine -- offering us multiple movies about each topic -- the Big Bastardized Theme of the year was an inexplicable one: Voodoo. In 1987-88, three major voodoo-themed movies came out, including Angel Heart, The Serpent and the Rainbow, and The Believers. Each was tackled by a major director, and none of them made a huge splash critically or commercially. In fact, they all made pretty much the same amount at the box office -- slightly under $20 million....read the full review |
| Technical Info
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Release Information
| | Studio: Lions Gate |
| Release Date: 2/6/2007 |
| Running Time: 112 minutes |
| Original Release Date: 1987 | | Catalog ID: 12048 | | UPC: 00012236120483 | | Number of Discs: 1 |
Audio & Video
| | Original Language: English | | Available Audio Tracks: English | | Available Subtitles: Spanish | | Video: Color |
Aspect Ratio | | Anamorphic Widescreen 1.85:1 |
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| | Professional Reviews | Variety
"...A mightily absorbing mystery that also represents the best sustained filmmaking of director Alan Parker..." 03/04/1987Los Angeles Times
"...It is a movie cool to the eye....It is the film's cumulative atmosphere that builds its mounting sense of doom..." 03/06/1987 p.C1 Total Film
"...With spine-twisting atmosphere, oodles of sly wit and a nightmare-birthing ending..." Sight and Sound
"...A definitive 1980s period piece..." 03/01/2001 p.62 Rolling Stone
"[Rourke] gives off a vibe of mangy cool..." 06/10/2004 p.103 Total Film
4 stars out of 5 -- "[I]t's still a kick to see the two Method men lock acting antlers -- particularly with both at the peak of their pomp." 08/01/2006 p.110 Uncut
4 stars out of 5 -- "ANGEL HEART grows richer with each viewing, especially in its autumnal palette." 09/01/2006 128 Ultimate DVD
4 stars out of 5 -- "ANGEL HEART duly remains a well-regarded Faustian puzzle of a film." 09/01/2006 p.213 Chicago Sun-Times 8 of 10
It has the unsettled logic of a nightmare, in which nothing fits and everything seems inevitable and - Roger Ebert
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