City of Angels

1998
PG-13
1h 54m

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6.7/10

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Nicolas Cage and Meg Ryan in City of Angels (1998)

Tragic Romance Drama Fantasy Romance

An angel on Earth, a doctor unable to believe, a patient with a secret, a love story made in Heaven.An angel on Earth, a doctor unable to believe, a patient with a secret, a love story made in Heaven.An angel on Earth, a doctor unable to believe, a patient with a secret, a love story made in Heaven.

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IMDb RATING

6.7/10

130K

YOUR RATING

POPULARITY

3,843

See production info at IMDbPro

Awards
- 10 wins & 14 nominations

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Storyline

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Trivia
The dedication "For Dawn" refers to producer Dawn Steel, who died of a brain tumor on December 20, 1997, four months before this film's release.

Goofs
When Maggie sees the truck she is about to hit towards the end of the movie, the truck is coming from the right side of the road and making a right turn. Later on when Nicolas Cage comes around to where Maggie is lying, the truck position is in the opposite direction, like it came from the left side of the road.

Quotes
Seth: I would rather have had one breath of her hair, one kiss of her mouth, one touch of her hand, than eternity without it. One.

Alternate versions
The DVD contains some additional/extended scenes:
Seth studies Maggie in her home while she is preparing a bath.
Maggie's dog Earl leaves her bed at night and she turns the light on. He sits beside Seth who is watching her. As she can't see Seth she just goes back to sleep.
The first surgery scene is extended.
Maggie prepares dinner while Seth watches her.
Seth and Maggie visit Nathaniel Messinger at his bed.
After Nathaniel told Maggie that Seth can fall, she goes and searches for angels in the hospital.
A montage of small tidbits that had to be cut like Seth talking to a Vietnamese woman or him trying to feel the blowing wind at the beach.

Connections
Featured in Siskel & Ebert: Lost in Space/The Spanish Prisoner/Mercury Rising/Kurt & Courtney/Character (1998)

Soundtracks
Red House
Written and Performed by Jimi Hendrix
Courtesy of MCA Records
Under license from Universal Music Special Markets

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Review

Featured review

It's Photography

The photography will blow you away. The scenes concocted and shot are breathtaking. It's almost better not to know this when you enter the cinema. And this movie should work far better in the cinema than on the small TV format at home.

As for the story, it concentrates on one small aspect of the original - and, according to about half the viewers, pulls a "dirty trick" on them, altogether unfair.

I left the movie house cursing the director and promising to punch his teeth in if I saw him. The ending, IMHO, was gratuitous sermonizing, and not at all what the majority of moviegoers came to see.