Tabloid reporters are sent by their editor to investigate after the paper recieves a letter from a woman claiming an angel is living with her.
Acting
Travolta's weirdly perfect angelic slouch.
Direction
Ephron finds heart in the absurd.
Director
Nora Ephron
John Travolta
Michael
Andie MacDowell
Dorothy Winters
William Hurt
Frank Quinlan
Bob Hoskins
Vartan Malt
Robert Pastorelli
Huey Driscoll
Jean Stapleton
Pansy Milbank
Teri Garr
Judge Esther Newberg
Wallace Langham
Bruce Craddock
Joey Lauren Adams
Anita
Carla Gugino
Bride
Tom Hodges
Groom
Catherine Lloyd Burns
Evie
Richard Schiff
Italian Waiter
Calvin Trillin
Sheriff
Donald J. Lee Jr.
Court Bailiff
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Travolta practiced the dance moves for weeks; the final scene was shot in one take because the cast was genuinely emotional.
Released during peak '90s angel craze—City of Angels, The Preacher's Wife, Touched by an Angel—but Michael subverts the trend by being kind of a jerk.
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