City of Angels | Nicolas Cage, Meg Ryan

City of Angels | Nicolas Cage, Meg Ryan | A Great Love Story

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City of Angels

	City of Angels Nicolas Cage, Meg Ryan Warner Home Video, 1999 average customer review:based on 318 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

"I'll Say It Was You"

Nicolas Cage gives a wonderful performance as Seth, an Angel who falls in love and begins to long for the ability to express that love, in a film that in some respects resembles the 1930's film "Death Takes a Holiday" with Fredric March and Evelyn Veneble. Seth's assignment as an angel is to help the dead cross over in this quasi remake of the Wim Wenders foreign film, "Wings of Desire." Few films since the glory days of Hollywood and the old studio system have been given the romantic glow of this film.

Meg Ryan is Maggie, the heart surgeon who is the object of Seth's affection. He is stunned when she somehow senses his prescence when trying to save one of her patients, and is touched and bewildered by her. Andre Braugher steals every scene he is in as Seth's fellow Angel and friend. They all hang out at the library and gather every morning at the beach to see the sunrise and hear the singing of heaven.

Dennis Franz has a fine turn as a patient in Maggie's hospital who knows Seth is there because he too was once an Angel. As Seth and he become friends, Seth contemplates how wonderful it would be to truly love Maggie, and searches for the courage to leave heaven behind and, simply fall.

This is one of the most romantic movies to come out of Hollywood in decades and has a message about the wonderful things we all take for granted. More than that, it is a story about the importance of love, even one felt for only a moment, for it is that experience which makes us special among all creation. To love is all, and to be loved in return is truly divine.

There are some memorable scenes in this romantic and haunting film. One involves the simple act of shopping for fruit at a farmer's market. Another involves Maggie being able to feel Seth in her room but unable to see him. Even Hemingway's Moveable Feast plays a part in this magical throwback film to a bygone era. This is very much a film which could just as easily have been made in the 1930's.

I will not ruin the last portion of this film if you have not seen it, but as we all know there is a price we pay for being human. This film is for anyone who has ever loved someone as Seth does, who would trade all eternity for just one breath of her hair. If you have ever loved someone so much your heart ached when they were not with you, then you will be deeply moved by this film. It is painted in broad romantic brushstrokes and colored in rich oils not easily removed from our hearts. This is a truly memorable film you will watch over and over.

Films like this are rarely made anymore and this is one to cherish. You will never forget the line: "When they ask me what I liked best...I'll say it was You."

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A Great Love Story

To have loved...nothing can be better. This story teaches us the true meaning of love. A tear jerker for the ladies. The reality of life for so many. A film to be added to any romantic's collection.

Very Good

Meg Ryan plays a nurse named Maggie who loses a patient on the operating table, who is visited by an angel named Seth(played by Nicholas Cage.) Of course, our main character doesn't believe in angels, but that is what makes the movie interesting. The two actors work very well together. Cage has an engaging gentile side and Ryan matches the emotions very nicely. This is a love story, which has some very tragic parts. Bring a box of Kleenex along, you will enjoy this one.

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Loveliest angel ever

I LOVED this movie, Meg and Nicholas give great performances, I especially enjoyed Nicholas in this film, his portrayal of innocense, honesty, vulnerability made me want to take care of him and I totally fell in love with him. Fabulous movie, watch it with a box of kleenex handy....

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