City of Angels

(1998)

★ 6.8 IMDb · 2,447 votes

Genres: Drama, Fantasy, Romance

Year: 1998

Runtime: 114 мин

Country: United States of America, Germany

Director: Brad Silberling

Cast: Николас Кейдж, Мег Райан, Dennis Franz, Андре Брауер, Колм Фиори, Robin Bartlett, Джоанна Мерлин, Sarah Dampf, Rhonda Dotson, Найджел Гиббс

Plot

When a guardian angel – who invisibly watches over the citizens of Los Angeles – becomes captivated by a strong-willed heart surgeon, he ponders trading in his pure, otherworldly existence for a mortal life with his beloved. The couple embarks on a tender but forbidden romance spanning heaven and Earth.

Seth is an angel who accompanies the spirits of the recently dead to the ever after. Seth has never been human and so has never experienced touch or taste. When in the hospital however he comes across Dr. Maggie Rice, a brilliant young heart surgeon who is devoted to her profession and her patients. Seth has the power to let himself be seen but Maggie finds him far too mysterious. Seth also meets a patient, Nathaniel Messinger, who has news for him - he too was once an angel like Seth but chose to fall to Earth and become human. Seth makes a decision on his future, which does not turn out as he had expected.