Angel Movies

When a couple of staff writers for a tabloid news-rag get a tip about an angel living in small town motel, they set off to see if they can scrape a story out of it. They are accompanied by a woman their editor tells them is an expert on angels. The truth is that none of them know anything about angels but nobody expects that to be a problem because none of them expect to meet an angel.

What they meet does not meet their expectations either. They see a guy who is a beer guzzling lazy slob. The only angelic thing about him is that he does have a large pair of wings. As far as anyone can tell, they are genuine. That means, angel or not, there is a scoop to be had for the tabloid. All they have to do is get the winged man safely back to HQ for photos.

As they make their way across the country, some very odd things happen. One would almost call them miracles. In time, the reporters begin to believe that they are traveling with a real angel.

They are and the angel has something on his agenda besides posing for a few pictures. In fact he has several things on his agenda and nothing is going to stop him from getting them done. That will not stop him from have as good a time as possible along the way, however. And wings seem to really be chick magnets.

This is a fun comedy. It is much better than my low expectations led me to believe it would be. It was fun and inlightening.

Cast

• 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, Brown’s Waitress