Date with an Angel

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.

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!

"Date With an Angel" is a sorry film about a young man (Michael E. Knight) who finds a beautiful angel (Emmanuelle Beart) in his swimming pool after a wild party the night before. Now he is trying to nurse the angel back to health so she can return to Heaven. However, his fiance (Phoebe Cates) is on the prowl and she is far from being understanding about the situation. The screenplay is stupid, the direction is non-existent, and none of the actors make lasting impressions. A total waste. Turkey (0 out of 5 stars).

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.

Oh my God people no a days have no taste so ever ... Where is everybody's humor... I was reading some of the comments people made about this fim. I just do not understand why they hate it so much... Yes, it is true this film is out dated but we need to remember that it came out 17 years ago!!! (Special effects were not the same as they are now)The first time I watched it, i FELL IN LOVE WITH IT.. It was romantic and hilarious! So what! if the Angel didnt talk, her beauty itself did the talking for her.. I really loved this film, I remember when it first came out on the theaters, I was only 7 years old...I do wish that this film would have had a better rating.. I think is one of the most unforgettable romantic/comedies I've ever seen. People need to start being less bitter now a days..!