Angel Heart
First screened around 1991 or 1992 / Most recently screened in August 2025
Director: Alan Parker. Cast: Mickey Rourke, Robert De Niro, Lisa Bonet, Dann Florek, Kathleen Wilhoite, Michael Higgins, Gerald Orange, Elizabeth Whitcraft, George Buck, Judith Drake, Peggy Severe, Brownie McGhee, Charlotte Rampling, Eliott Keener, Pruitt Taylor Vince, Rick Washburn, Neil Newton. Screenplay: Alan Parker (based on the novel Falling Angel by William Hjortsberg).

   
Photo © 1987 Tri-Star Pictures/Carolco Pictures
In Brief: Fair debate if it's a gutsy, stylish, surprising mix or a hacky, sleazy mess of genres. I'll cut the devil some slack.

VOR:   I don't know that anyone would miss this piece of noirish, Southern-ish, exploitation-ish mashup, but it's hardly playing things safe.

Grade: B


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