Angel Heart

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*Strong Language* *Sexual Situations* *Nudity* *Very Gory *</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>1987/Color/112 Min./International Video Entertainment & Wincast-Union Productions & Carolco International N.Y./Unrated</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Director.............Alan Parker (</B><I><B>The Commitments, Fame, Midnight Express</B></I><B>)</B></div> <div> <B>Screenplay........Alan Parker (</B><I><B>Birdy, Mississippi Burning, The Wall</B></I><B>)</B></div> <div> <B>Music.................Trevor Jones</B></div> <div> <B>Producer...........Alan Marshall & Elliott Kastner</B></div> <div> <B>Executive Producers.....Mario Kassar & Andrew Vajna</B></div> <div> <B>Special Make-up by Robert Laden</B></div> <div> <B>Based on the Novel "Fallen Angel" by William Hjortsberg</B></div> <bR> <div> <B><U>Dramatis Personae</U></B></div> <div> <B>Harry Angel................Mickey Rourke (</B><I><B>Barfly, Diner, Rumble Fish</B></I><B>)</B></div> <div> <B>Louis Cyphers...........Robert DeNiro (</B><I><B>Awakenings, Cape Fear, Midnight Run</B></I><B>)</B></div> <div> <B>Epiphany Proudfoot..Lisa Bonet (</B><I><B>Bank Robber, Cosby Show</B></I><B>)</B></div> <div> <B>Margaret Krusemark..Charlotte Rampling (</B><I><B>Orca, Stardust Memories</B></I><B>)</B></div> <div> <B>Ethan Krusemark.....Stocker Fontelieu</B></div> <div> <B>Toots Sweet.............Brownie McGree</B></div> <div> <B>Doctor Fowler..........Michael Higgins (</B><I><B>On Valentine's Day, Paul's Case</B></I><B>)</B></div> <div> <B>Connie.......................Elizabeth Whitcraft</B></div> <div> <B>Sterne........................Elliot Keeler</B></div> <div> <B>Spider Simpson......Charles Gordone</B></div> <div> <B>Winesap....................Dann Florek</B></div> <div> <B>Nurse.........................Kathleen Wilhoite (</B><I><B>Lorenzo's Oil, Witchboard</B></I><B>)</B></div> <bR> <div> <B><U>Critique</U></B><B>: Fine acting, production values, and Allen Parker's precise direction make this a superior horror movie. Angel's blackouts and flashbacks are given in a whirling hurricane of suggestions that slowly lead the viewer. Watch the cuts to fans. Mickey Rourke (finally) gives an outstanding performance as a Brooklyn private investigator. Ask him whether he's an atheist or speaks French and he'll explain it by saying he's from Brooklyn. The search provides an historical tour of club music (Blues, Jazz, Dixieland) without being oppressive. Lisa Bon‚t delivers her least boring performance to date and Robert Deniro is Robert Deniro. The supporting cast is likewise truly outstanding. Although a superior job is done of blending dream and reality in Angel's mind, there are certain unacceptably indeterminate strings left dangling. Favorite was horribly injured during the war and came home apparently a vegetable in 1943. He was led away by the Krusemarks in order to deceive Cyphers as to his whereabouts. Cyphers has come to Angel to locate Favorite. After this, it becomes very hazy. It may be possible to produce a coherent story out of the rest, but to do so you've got to do some pretty heavy detective work yourself.    </B></div> <bR> <div> <B><U>Plot Summary</U></B><B>: A corpse lies in an alley with its throat slit. Switch to New York, 1955. Harold Angel, a private investigator, gets a call from Winesap & McIntosh regarding a Louis Cyphers. Angel goes to an appointment in Harlem and is brought to a revival building where a man had recently committed suicide. Angel meets Cyphers, a dapper looking man with pointy finger nails, a pentagram ring and a cane. Cyphers claims it was no accident that Angel was contacted. Cyphers asks about Johnny Favorite, a.k.a Johnny Liebling who had been a "crooner" of some notoriety during the war. Cyphers had a contract with Favorite which would be forfeited in the event of his death and wants to know whether Favorite is alive or dead. Interestingly, both Angel and Favorite were hurt in the war. Favorite was injured in the face and neck, and is apparently a vegetable. Cyphers found out that Favorite was no longer in the hospital where he was supposed to be, and has apparently disappeared. Cyphers' contract was thus never honored. Angel is hired to check it out. Cyphers thinks he's met Angel before. Angel goes to Sarah Dodd's Harvest convalescent home, pretending to be  conducting a survey on trauma cases. Liebling was supposedly transferred in December 1943, but Angel is suspicious and goes to see the doctor involved in the case, Albert Fowler. Angel finds evidence that Fowler is a morphine addict. When Fowler returns, Angel confronts him, threatening him with exposure. Fowler admits that when Favorite arrived he had plastic surgery and was taken south with amnesia. Fowler was paid to pretend Liebling was still there. The claim he was moved took place because he had a visitor for the first time in twelve years. (No doubt Cyphers) Leaving the doctor's house, Harry walks by a church and thinks he sees a bucket full of blood. Harry returns to find that the doctor's eye has been blown out in an apparent suicide. Harry decides the better part of valor would be to wipe off all evidence of his coming there. Harry meets with Cyphers and tells him Fowler has been murdered. Angel doesn't want to finish the job, but Cyphers offers him five thousand. Cyphers eats hard boiled eggs, noting that some religions take them to be symbols of the soul. Harry has a thing about chickens. Angel ends up in an apartment with voodoo paraphanalia. He approaches a woman in the revival hall and is attacked by two men. After a scuffle, he escapes into the bowels of Harlem. His girlfriend says Johnny was in the Spider Simpson band. Spider's now in an old folks' home. Margaret Krusemark, a witch. was his friend. She left Johnny. Angel has been having strange flashbacks of an event involving a sailor kissing a woman. Liebling was taken by an Edward Kelly down south. Toute Suite and perhaps Margaret are in New Orleans. Angeline Proudfoot, also a witch, was a black lover. Angel decides not to tell Cyphers about Angeline. Angel goes to see a madam Zora whom Favorite used to visit. He finds that Zora Krusemark were in fact one in the same. Angel heads down to New Orleans. Angel contacts Krusemark about a fortune telling and says his birthday was on Feb. 14, Liebling's birthday. Margaret (who has a pentagram necklace) admits she had a friend with the same birthday. Angel lets on that he knows Johnny Favorite. Margaret tells him that Johnny died twelve years before. As he leaves, she tells him that he wouldn't like what she sees in his palm. Harry asks after Evangeline Proudfoot. He is told that she died in 1947. He sees her grave and sees a young woman who puts food out on the grave and follows her to her house. He asks Epiphany about Johnny and about Toute Suite. Angel goes to see Toute Suite at a club. Angel says he's writing about the Spider Simpson band. Angel follows him into the bathroom to ask some more questions, and finds a ritual chicken claw. He is soon rushed out of the club. Angel follows Toute to a ritual involving the sacrifice of a chicken in which Tiffany is doused with blood. A fan wheels slowly as Toute heads up to his apartment after the ritual. Angel attacks him from behind and gets cut in the hand before he gets down to the brass tacks with him. Toute tells Angel he hasn't seen Johnny. The next day, Angel finds that Toute was found dead in a gruesome fashion. Angel has further memories of a victory parade during the war and someone screaming in an apartment. Angel returns to Margaret's place and finds it's too late for an interview--she hasn't the heart. He manfully searches through her things for evidence. He finds a human hand. Soon some men attack Angel, telling him that Krusemark's father wants him out of town. Evangeline admits that Johnny was her father. She says he never came back from the war. Angel gets a message and meets Cyphers at a church. He gets no further information. When he returns to his apartment, he finds Tiffany. She tells him her mother said her father was a great lover and was the closest thing to evil she had ever met. As they have sex, Angel seems to recall strange orgies and flowing blood. Angel approaches Krusemark at the county fair. Krusemark says the hand of a convicted murderer was part of the rite she was practicing with him. He says Johnny sold his soul for stardom. He stole the soul of a boy who they had kidnapped on New Year's eve. Apparently, Margaret has the boy's dog tags in a jar in her room.</B></div> </td> </tr></table></body>