Angel Heart
1987 · Movie · R · 113 min · ★ 7.1 · 72% critics
A broke private investigator takes a missing-person job that pulls him from Brooklyn into Harlem, then deep into New Orleans and Louisiana’s swamps. As the trail winds through jazz clubs and a seedy underworld tied to voodoo, the case grows darker, more dangerous, and increasingly hard to trust.
Based on Falling Angel
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Details
- Years
- 1987
- Release date
- 1987-03-06
- Language
- English
- Rated
- R
- Runtime
- 113 min
- Critic score
- 72/100
- TMDB rating
- 7.1/10 (1,731 votes)
- Box office
- $17,185,632
- Budget
- $18,000,000
About
You’ll likely enjoy this if you want a noir-tinged mystery that turns increasingly eerie and unsettling, with a slow-building sense of dread; Not for you if you dislike grim themes, gore, or a deliberate pace like Jacob's Ladder.
Pros: moody, unsettling atmosphere; strong lead performances; gripping mystery setup | Cons: slow-burn pacing; violence and nudity; ending feels predictable
Themes
- new york city
- amnesia
- heart
- southern usa
- voodoo
- detective
- drug addiction
- new orleans, louisiana
- investigation
- neurosis
- sanatorium
- surrealism
- +26 more
Cast & crew
Mickey Rourke
as Harry Angel
Robert De Niro
as Louis Cyphre
Lisa Bonet
as Epiphany Proudfoot
Charlotte Rampling
as Margaret Krusemark
Stocker Fontelieu
as Ethan Krusemark
Brownie McGhee
as Toots Sweet
Michael Higgins
as Doctor Fowler
Elizabeth Whitcraft
as Connie
Eliott Keener
as Sterne
Charles Gordone
as Spider Simpson
Directed by Alan Parker