City of Angels

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Summary: Best Meg Ryan movie ever!
Review: This movie was the best movie I've seen in ages! It's a wonderful story of love but the scenes with the angels make you think...what if. I really think you'll like this movie.

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Summary: ANGEL FOOD CAKE
Review: It seems there's this angel who comes to Earth and falls in love with a beautiful woman and becomes infatuated with human beings and life and this is not "Death Takes A Holiday" and if you like movies about angles who confront human nature as if it's an exotic butterfly then this is likely to be the cherry on your ambrosia pie.

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Summary: if you like it, buy it
Review: If you like this movie buy it, if you just want to see it rent it. There is only in english without spanish subtitles for those who want it in spanish, but as I said, I like this movie a lot, I can see it a lot of times, but I am a Meg Ryan Fan, I don`t care another characteristics but if you like it buy it.
rent it first

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Summary: So touching
Review: Such a beatiful, sad story. I won't give anything away, but it left me in tears. That kind of sacrifice.... I wish it happened in real life, instead of only in movies. It's a beautiful film.

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Summary: GREAT MOVIE
Review: This movie is amazing! Its so sad, I cried for like 30 minutes once it was over! (Im very emotional) Its really touching that he loved her enough that he would sacrafice being an angel! What a sweet thing to do! Its a classic movie you should either rent or buy it!

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Summary: The pain was excruciating!!!!
Review: This is the most horrible remake I have ever found. I assumed the English version could be close to the German version of Wings of Desire and was completely wrong. This movie is the worst waste of film I have ever found! The whole trench coat angel thing that was so critical to Wings of Desire made no sense in sunny hot Los Angeles. The characters were massacred to fit into Los Angeles but none of the obvious things that would not fit in Los Angeles were touched. This movie is way too much Hollywood with over exaggerated romance and of course death at the end. I nearly died too. It was sappy as Hell and even as a girl, too much for me. It was too typical Hollywood with exaggerated romance, a stupid sex scene and death. Wim Wenders is not Hollywood and thank God for it. The cast of Wings of Desire took so much care with every element of the film. The City of Angels cast just shot out their lines in a brainless manner without though of the big picture. Maybe a complete redo of the whole Wings of Desire concept could have saved this movie. Changing some parts and keeping others made for a horrible boring and annoying combination. One star is being generous!

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Summary: Hard to swallow
Review: I liked the movie but it was a hard one to swallow. It really makes you think about the way life works.

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Summary: Puppy Dog Face
Review: If you want to see Nick Cage show a sad puppy dog face for about two hours, this is the movie for you. Nice idea for a story, but couldn't stand the sad puppy dog face for two hours.

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Summary: This movie will make you think ... about your mortality.
Review: City of Angels was released by Warner Studios in 1998. Run time is 110 minutes. Nicholas Cage and Meg Ryan are the principal actors. Co-stars include Dennis Franz and Andre Braugher.
Directed by Brad Silberling
Genre - Drama

Set in Los Angles, in the opening scene an angel, Seth (Nicholas Cage) escorts a dying girl from the emergency room where she just passed away. Net, we cut to an unusual site: two men, clothed entirely in black sitting comfortably atop a freeway exit sign over a busy interstate highway overlooking the city. No matter how you look at it, City of Angels will make you think about how angels might exist with us in our world. We soon see that angels are everywhere - walking on rooftops, standing on the "Hollywood" sign, even in an airport control tower.

Seth finds himself escorting a dying heart patient from a cardiac surgery suite. He stares intently into the eyes of the young surgeon, Doctor Maggie Rice (Meg Ryan) as she struggles to revive her dying patient. We learn a little more about angels: they can see us, and each other, but only a dying and delirious human can see them unless the angel wants a person to see them.

Later Seth follows Doctor Rice as she walks through a children's ward in the hospital. Rice seems to be walking aimlessly as she struggles to cope with the loss of her patient. We see an angel in every room with the sick children. Later that evening, Seth meets Doctor Rice in the hallway of the hospital after visiting hours as she is "making mounds." He talks about the death of her patient. He tells her that her patient "... is living. Just not the way you think."

About this time, you may observe that the angels do not blink. They look at our world and the people in it with a steady gaze, almost a stare. As we watch Seth gaze intently at Doctor Rice, you understand he is falling in love.

During a night of fitful sleep, Doctor Rice awakens and opens a book on her nightstand. We see the title of the book: Hemingway's "A Moveable Feast." After reading the book, the next day she is in a good mood. She thanks a boyfriend for the book. He denies giving it to her, asking "where'd you get it?"
Rice goes to the public library and asks if she can find out who checked the book out. She again meets Seth and they leave together. They visit a grocery store and stop to eat. As Rice eats a pear, Seth asks her what a pear tastes like. She asks him if he doesn't know already. He answers, "I don't know what a pear tastes like to you."

Seth soon meets a patient under Doctor Rice's care (Dennis Franz) who turns out to be a former angel. He tells Seth how he can become human: you just choose to fall to earth. We also learn that angels all gather at sunrise and sunset on a beach.

Seth struggles, but finally chooses to become human so he can be with Doctor Rice. It is a difficult transition and he suffers the indignities of a person new to the big city. It is both a funny and sad commentary on humanity to watch him try to find Doctor Rice, and be beaten and robbed of his shoes on the street.

Seth and Doctor Rice do finally get together at her cabin on Lake Tahoe. Their time together is very, very short. I won't spoil the ending for you. But the outcome is certain to bring a tear to your eye (or at least a lump to your throat).

City of Angles isn't just a "chick flick." The music is outstanding (In the Arms of An Angel, for one) and I really ended the movie in a thoughtful state of mind. In my opinion, City of Angels is a well-acted, interesting story. The ending may make you consider just how short life really is.

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Summary: Modern Classic!
Review: Meg Ryan plays a great role. Cage plays such a great part himself, really getting into his character. This story line is so unique and from the beginning, it shows how only some people show unconditional love. Being a man who loves a woman, I wanted to just reach out and fall into the script. One of my favorite movies of all time.