| | | Warner Bros. Double Feature.
Features: DVD
Feel the power of the divine with this exclusive Warner Bros. Double Feature! Romance, comedy, and supernatural miracles are what to watch out for in these two films about men claiming to be angels. Enjoy Nicolas Cage in City of Angels and John Travolta in Michael!City of Angels: Pragmatic heart surgeon Maggie doesn't believe in angels...until she meets one. That angel is Seth, who can remain a spiritual being and live forever. Or he can forsake his immortality on the chance that Maggie might love him. Nicolas Cage and Meg Ryan star in the rapturous and tender romance City of Angels. Michael: Next, romantic comedy gets its wings in Michael. John Travolta plays a disheveled, Heaven-sent angel who's just a little bit devilish as he tries to make the most of his terrestrial visit. Andie MacDowell co-stars as a member of a tabloid team that's eager to reel in a page-one story. Divine comedy!
"[City] ...a lyrical, unabashedly romantic film [that] earns its wings..." David Ansen, NewsWeek
"[City] The most powerful and spellbinding romance in years." Jay Carr, The Boston Globe
"[Michael] ...charming...Travolta, as the seedy, randy Michael, is perfectly cast." Leonard Maltin's Movie & Video Guide
"[Michael] Travolta is magic as an angel with a devilish side." Roger Ebert, Siskel & Ebert at the Movies
Editor's Note
CITY OF ANGELS: Based in part on Wim Wenders's 1988 film, WINGS OF DESIRE, this is the story of Seth (Nicolas Cage), an angel who wanders the Los Angeles area invisible to humans. As someone's death approaches, he spends time near that person and becomes visible while acting as traveling companion during the trip to the great hereafter. His discovery of a distraught heart surgeon, Maggie (Meg Ryan), inspires him to forego his immortality and exist on earth with her as a feeling and mortal entity. MICHAEL: John Travolta literally spreads his wings in this tale of a slightly sinful, cookie-scented archangel plopped down in Iowa to rekindle a little human faith. The cocky cherub's mission of healing frequently takes a back seat to his delight in such earthly pleasures as dancing, smoking, and drinking, but ultimately his divine duty wins out.
| Features | [Both] Interactive Menus | | [Both] Scene Selection |
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Release Information
| | Studio: Warner |
| Release Date: 12/9/2008 |
| Original Release Date: 2006 | | Catalog ID: 112635 | | UPC: 00085391126355 | | Number of Discs: 1 |
Audio & Video
| | Original Language: English | | Available Audio Tracks: English | | Video: Color |
| Cast & Crew
| Awards |
Nominee (1999) | | | Golden Globe, Alanis Morissette, [City] Best Original Song - Motion Picture | | | Image Award, Andre Braugher, [City] Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture | | | MTV Award, "Goo Goo Dolls", [City] Best Movie Song | | | MTV Award, Nicolas Cage, Meg Ryan, [City] Best On-Screen Duo |
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| | Professional Reviews | ReelViews 8 of 10
[City] City of Angels is based, not unexpectedly, in Los Angeles, which here is a literal "City of Angels," with the invisible celestial agents sitting high atop billboards and skyscrapers. Dressed like Heaven's Men in Black, the angels are an odd bunch. They spend their days and nights observing and occasionally offering comfort to select humans. They cannot touch, taste, or smell. They are immortal and ethereal...When it comes to heavenly matters, City of Angels doesn't offer any particular insights. The movie does not ponder the meaning of life; rather, it shamelessly celebrates the human experience by demonstrating the monotony of endless voyeurism. On a somewhat less-intellectual level, it's also about sacrifice. But the film doesn't thrive on ideas alone (if it tried, it would be in trouble, since it's not that deep). Solid acting and positive chemistry are critical to City of Angels' success. - James Berardinelli
Chicago Sun-Times 8 of 10
[Michael] So popular are angels in Hollywood that just this season, John Travolta, Denzel Washington and Dolly Parton have played them in new movies...Travolta's angel is the scruffiest. He needs a shave, smokes a lot, eats his breakfast cereal using the backhanded steam-shovel spoon grip and lives in the office of the Milk Bottle Motel, somewhere in rural Iowa...A lot of the good things in the movie are charmingly inconsequential, as when MacDowell sings a Randy Newman song about pie, or when Travolta starts dancing to "Chain of Fools'' in a roadhouse, and all of the women are drawn magically onto the floor with him..."Michael'' doesn't set up big drama or punch up big moments. It ambles. Travolta, using the same offhand ease that worked in "Phenomenon,'' works his magic on the humans without even seeming to have his mind much on his job. He's more concerned with his farewell tour of Earth's pleasures. - Roger Ebert
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