Mickey Rourke
Harold R. 'Harry' Angel
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Angel Heart is a 1987 American neo-noir psychological horror film, an adaptation of William Hjortsberg's 1978 novel Falling Angel. The film was written and directed by Alan Parker, and stars Mickey Rourke, Robert De Niro, Lisa Bonet, and Charlotte Rampling.
With Mickey Rourke, Robert De Niro, Lisa Bonet, Charlotte Rampling. In 1955 New Orleans, small-time private investigator Harry Angel is hired by a man who calls himself Louis Cypher to track down a singer named Johnny Favorite, but the investigation takes an unexpected and somber turn.
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- Horror, Mystery, Thriller
- Alan Parker
- 1987-03-06
Harry Angel (Mickey Rourke) is a private detective contracted by Louis Cyphre (Robert De Niro) to track down the iconic singer Johnny Favorite. However, everybody that Angel questions about ...
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- Alan Parker
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- Mickey Rourke
New York City, January 3, 1955, a sloppy, unshaved man in a trench coat walks a street in Brooklyn, he smokes and greets various neighbors to the constant sound of a phone ringing. Harold Angel (Mickey Rourke) enters his shabby office and answers the phone.
"Angel Heart" is a thriller and a horror movie, but most of all it's an exuberant exercise in style, in which Parker and his actors have fun taking it to the limit.
A down-and-out Brooklyn detective is hired to track down a singer on an odyssey that will take him through the desperate streets of Harlem, the smoke-filled jazz clubs of New Orleans, and the swamps of Louisiana and its seedy underworld of voodoo.
A NYC detective, hired to find a missing man in 1955 New Orleans, becomes trapped within a labyrinth of voodoo, violence, sex and horror - a gothic tale replete with sensual and terrifying images. Based on William Hjortsberg's novel 'Falling Angel.'
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