Verabredung mit einem Engel

When I was a very young lad I used to watch this movie again, and again, and again. I don't why but this, innerspace, ghostbusters (1 and later 2) and beetlejuice were the crown jewels of my video library. It may be campy, but it has a pretty good storyline and a slew of hilarious moments. Let's face it it's still betetr than 90% of the movies that came out this year--and most of the late nineties--UNder the tuscan Sun, I"m looking in your direction. Anyway Phoebe Cates and the model angel chick are wicked hot--and really random thigns like a singing love-o-gram dressed as a beetle pop-up in the flick. For a late eighties romantic comedy, the plot is actually somewhat interesting and doesn't involve shenanigans with a dead boss, a secret party island, or either of the corey;s. It's good times.

Chick flick that this chick didn't like. If I could look like any actress on the planet it would be Phoebe Cates. The dumbest thing to do was to cast Phoebe Cates as the third wheel in a fantasy romance. The fantasy is not that there are angels (I believe there are), but that anyone engaged to Phoebe Cates would not devote one hundred per cent of his time to her...if Phoebe Cates is not an angel on earth, who is? Michael Knight is handsome but stupid. Part of the reason I watch Phoebe Cates films is to put myself in her place. If I was in her place I would kick him to the curb. Phoebe Cates is too stunning to be shelved temporarily either in a relationship or in a script. The producers suspected this by casting (as a distraction) the wonderful French beauty Beart (of Manons in the Spring) in the angel role (sorry close, but no cigar). Beart as an angel is no Roma Downey, in fact she can't even communicate! Beart as a beauty is no Phoebe Cates. So where do you go once this fatal error is fully entrenched? No where. Phoebe Cates as usual rises above the role connecting more with the audience than with her on-screen fiance Michael Knight (ooh hasn't his career blossomed). My suggestion: rent the film, leave the doomed romance between Beart and Knight to the fast forward button, laugh at the producers who put their money into the "great stars" Knight and Beart, and enjoy Phoebe Cates performance. I think you have to be a Phoebe Cates fan to have any reason to rent this film. I am her biggest fan. If you are not a fan...yet...don't start with this film watch Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Drop Dead Fred, Paradise, Bodies Rest and Motion, even Gremlins 2. All of her performances are gems, but caution: Date With An Angel is for experienced Phoebe fans only.

... but not even her unearthly, celestial beauty could rescue this film. And yes, the young Phoebe Cates was beautiful, but in looks alone, she's no match for Ms. Beart. But really, this is a idiotic film, with an idiotic plot, that is only watchable when Ms. Beart is on screen. Yes, she can do with just a glance what most actresses need a few pages of dialog to convey. I can't recommend this boring, badly directed and badly everything film, except for Ms. Beart. She's the only reason why you should watch this film, but fast forward any part she's not in.

If ever an angel looked like Emmanuelle Be'art,she was the one. The movie was so enjoyable and moving at times, you could shed a tear, while laughing off the couch at the antics of the "MORTALS" The movie just made you feel good to be able to watch. Why it never became a 10 star I can't figure out. The American movies will often engross you in this type of "Story" with name stars and at the end, "KICK YOU IN THE STOMACH" for effect...like Turner and Hooch, and City Of Angels and Heaven Can Wait. This "DATE WITH AN ANGEL" is one of my favorite movies of all time. I have 4000 very selected movies movies on vcr tapes and this one is TOP TEN. It should be run more often. Armand D. Maanum

Forget the script. Forget the acting. Never has such beauty leapt off the screen as it did with french actress, Emmanuelle Beart. My reaction was much like that of the characters on screen. MESMERIZED!!! I am forever in this films debt for the american introduction of this incredible woman. Thank you!