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Date with an Angel

Date with an Angel

Comedy · Fantasy · Romance · 1987

Aspiring composer Jim Sanders is engaged to spoiled rich girl Patty. But the morning after his bachelor party, Jim wakes up to discover a beautiful, broken-winged angel in his pool. When everyone finds out about his heavenly houseguest, Jim must cope with a dangerously jealous fiancée, an exploitive future father-in-law and a group of buddies with an outrageous business plan!

Movie details

Date with an Angel

“Jim is about to marry a princess... but he's in love with an angel.”

1987 Comedy · Fantasy · Romance 1h 45m

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6.8 / 10

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Aspiring composer Jim Sanders is engaged to spoiled rich girl Patty. But the morning after his bachelor party, Jim wakes up to discover a beautiful, broken-winged angel in his pool. When everyone finds out about his heavenly houseguest, Jim must cope with a dangerously jealous fiancée, an exploitive future father-in-law and a group of buddies with an outrageous business plan!

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Names above the title

The people responsible.

Directed by

Tom McLoughlin

Written by

Tom McLoughlin

Michael E. Knight

Michael E. Knight

Jim Sanders

Phoebe Cates

Phoebe Cates

Patty Winston

Emmanuelle Béart

Emmanuelle Béart

Angel

David Dukes

David Dukes

Ed Winston

Phillip Brock

Phillip Brock

George

Albert Macklin

Albert Macklin

Don

Peter Kowanko

Peter Kowanko

Rex

Court is in session

Put Date with an Angel on trial.

Two incompatible taste archetypes. One film. Read the arguments, then issue a completely binding cultural ruling.

The defence The Sentimental Softie

“Sincerity is not manipulation.”

The film risks embarrassment to make emotion communal, and that openness is harder than fashionable detachment.

The prosecution The Cool Ironist

“The strings are showing.”

Every cue tells you exactly what to feel and when, leaving sentiment to do the work character should have done.