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Un ange de trop

Original title: Heart Condition
  • 1990
  • R
  • 1h 40m
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5.5/10
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Denzel Washington and Bob Hoskins in Un ange de trop (1990)
A racist cop receives a heart transplant from a black lawyer he hates, who returns as a ghost to ask the cop to help take down the men who murdered him.
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A racist cop receives a heart transplant from a black lawyer he hates, who returns as a ghost to ask the cop to help take down the men who murdered him.A racist cop receives a heart transplant from a black lawyer he hates, who returns as a ghost to ask the cop to help take down the men who murdered him.A racist cop receives a heart transplant from a black lawyer he hates, who returns as a ghost to ask the cop to help take down the men who murdered him.

  • Director
    • James D. Parriott
  • Writer
    • James D. Parriott
  • Stars
    • Bob Hoskins
    • Denzel Washington
    • Chloe Webb
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    • Director
      • James D. Parriott
    • Writer
      • James D. Parriott
    • Stars
      • Bob Hoskins
      • Denzel Washington
      • Chloe Webb
    • 22User reviews
    • 12Critic reviews
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    Bob Hoskins
    Bob Hoskins
    • Jack Moony
    Denzel Washington
    Denzel Washington
    • Napoleon Stone
    Chloe Webb
    Chloe Webb
    • Crystal Gerrity
    Roger E. Mosley
    Roger E. Mosley
    • Captain Wendt
    Ja'net DuBois
    Ja'net DuBois
    • Mrs. Stone
    Alan Rachins
    Alan Rachins
    • Dr. Posner
    Ray Baker
    Ray Baker
    • Harry Zara
    Jeffrey Meek
    Jeffrey Meek
    • Graham
    Eva LaRue
    Eva LaRue
    • Peisha
    Frank R. Roach
    • Senator Marquand
    Robert Apisa
    • Teller
    Kieran Mulroney
    Kieran Mulroney
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    Lisa Stahl
    Lisa Stahl
    • Annie
    Clayton Landey
    Clayton Landey
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    Julia Silverman
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    Phyllis Hamlin
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    • Director
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      • James D. Parriott
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    5view_and_review

    Disheartening

    This movie was a bit mercurial--it started of terrible, then it seemed as if it was going to be a decent movie, then it changed for the worse.

    Racist officer Jack Moony (Bob Hoskins) suffers a heart attack and receives a heart transplant from African-American lawyer Napoleon Stone (Denzel Washington). In came the extremely racist and crude jokes from his coworkers. This heart transplant came with more than bad jokes it came with the ghost of Napoleon Stone.

    Initially, Denzel was hamming it up as Napoleon and it was uncomfortable to watch Denzel behave in such a manner. Then, the movie seemed to take a turn for the best: the dialogue got better, the plot made sense and all was right. Then, just as suddenly the movie became a chore to watch. The plot had holes and characters were behaving badly. The movie fizzled out even if it was a happy ending.
    5claudio_carvalho

    Lost Between Comedy and Crime

    In Los Angeles, the call girls Crystal Gerrity (Chloe Webb) and Peisha (Eva LaRue) are partying with the prominent Senator Marquand (Frank R. Roach) that has an overdose. Crystal keeps the film with the photos she had taken and together with Peisha, she meets the lawyer Napoleon Stone (Denzel Washington) that is her boyfriend. Meanwhile the racist and bigoted cop Jack Moony (Bob Hoskins) sees Stone in his car with Crystal, who was his girlfriend, and chases him despite the protest of his partner Harry Zara (Ray Baker) that wants to be promoted to detective. However Jack has a heart attack but is saved by the heart of Stone, who had a car accident. Out of the blue, Jack sees the ghost of Stone that tells him that he was murdered. Jack is forced to team-up with Stone to investigate who killed him. But no one else can see Stone but him.

    "Heart Condition" is a strange film that is lost between comedy with heavy hand and crime. The plot is funny is some moments and violent in others. There are holes in the story, like for example, how Jack would explain the large amount that he had spent. In addition, this character is non-likable. My vote is five.

    Title (Brazil): "Uma Estranha Condição" ("A Strange Condition")
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    A film of not bad condition

    You get the feeling, right from the opening images, this is a too serious film to be a comedy. I don't think I laughed at anything, except two things, and I'm not really sure if they were, that they were from this movie. Only a couple of things manage to carry this movie off, favorably. It's definitely the chemistry between two great actors + a great actress, sorely very underused. Bigoted cop, Hoskins playing the role to a nice tee, suffers a major heart attack, after years of eating those fast foods, we so much love. He has a transplant from a dead guy, Washington. Coincidentally, it's the slick lawyer of a former girlfriend/prostitute (the versatile Webb) he's been tailing. And guess what, after surviving the heart attack, he reappears, only for Hoskins's eyes, where he implores this cop, now re-assigned to desk duty, and a strict diet, to him find the killers, he fell afoul of. Denzel is perfectly suited for his role, where we are reminded of just how good an actor he is. Webb, an actress I like, is just as good, looking beautiful as Hoskins's girl, who has a secret of her own. The film doesn't work as a comedy, despite some cute dialogue of Washington, and some mad antics from Hoskins's parading as a nutso. Still as an entertaining crime adventure film, it works, mainly from it's contributing performances, where as an end treat, we have that great song by Bonnie Raitt It also again, raises that issue of health, where like me, a too little number are adverse to eating the healthy stuff.
    Micheaux

    Boop-Boop-Boo-Beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep...

    An easy way to tick off Hoskins or Washington when you meet them may be your mentioning of this movie to them. I saw it at it's Los Angeles premiere and it contained ONE funny scene, which consisted of Hoskins trying to wrest a cheeseburger from spirit Washington. The movie was unfunny, racially offensive(I didn't appreciate the "endowment" comment that Washington made) and dramatically untrue in spots(if a mother just lost her son, would she be discussing her child's sexual habits with ANYONE, especially a stranger?).

    It would have been a completely forgettable experience had it not been for Hoskins and Washington. They do not elevate this movie, for no one really could, but it sticks in the mind as a film that makes you wonder why these talented actors decided to do it in the first place.

    People are comparing this to "Ghost" and that is indeed not without merit, however, for more enjoyable movies with ghosts, I would suggest "The Ghost Goes West" with Robert Donat and Eugene Pallette or for a more romantic turn, "The Ghost and Mrs. Muir.
    6elo-equipamentos

    A bigoted-sloppy cop Hoskins lead by a fancy black dead Washington!!

    Hollywood has been exploited this thematic buddy comedy where the living interacts with dead ones countless times, likewise GHOST, MY BOYFRIEND'S BACK, DEAD HEAT, 18 AGAIN just to name a few, this time shorty-fat-sloppy cop Bob Hoskins that used to be eat crap food, smoking hard and also drinking while pursuing a black lawyer Denzel Washington in service of an infamous pimp-gangster who has his former girlfriend Chloe Webb as prostitute, due his bad health behavior and strenuous job allied a mental strain he ends up at hospital on heat attack, guess is the heart donor, yes nothing less the fancy black lawyer Washington, dead by suspicious circumstances.

    Upon learning such outrageous news the bigoted cop going mad than never, now nolens volens Bob has to dealing with Washington's shadow wherever he goes, worst such ghost demands a help to find out a clue that might lead the slippery pimp in the jail, in return he offers an aid to get back his naïve girlfriend, nonetheless everything went upside down when the jealous cop discover that his beloved Chloe has a little child of the womanizer Washington, well it's an average comedy, somehow the prearranged formula did work out plenty, although nothing despicable whatsoever.

    Thanks for reading.

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    First watch: 1999 / How many: 2 / Source: TV-DVD / Rating: 6.25.

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    • Trivia
      It was long rumored that Denzel Washington was allegedly talked into making this film by his agent. He also allegedly fired him shortly afterwards because of how terrible the reception for it was. However, in 2017 Washington's publicist was asked about this "fact" in a story on the movie at 'The Ringer' and stated for the record that the rumor was not and never had been true.
    • Goofs
      When Mooney and Stone's mother are standing at the foot of the bed and Mooney opens his shirt, you can see Stone's mother's hand on his chest, but in the next shot, she is just now reaching for his chest.
    • Quotes

      [Stone, now in spirit form, sneezes]

      Jack Moony: How can you be sick? You're dead!

      Napoleon Stone: It's psychological.

      [Moony laughs]

      Napoleon Stone: What's so funny?

      Jack Moony: A hypochondriac spook.

    • Connections
      Featured in Siskel & Ebert & the Movies: Stella/Heart Condition/Men Don't Leave/Flashback/Cinema Paradiso (1990)
    • Soundtracks
      Uzube Nami Baba
      Performed by Ladysmith Black Mambazo

      Published by Shissa International

      Courtesy of Gallo GRC Records

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    • Release date
      • July 18, 1990 (France)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Heart Condition
    • Filming locations
      • Hollywood Boulevard, Hollywood, California, USA(Location)
    • Production company
      • New Line Cinema
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    • Budget
      • $10,000,000 (estimated)
    • Gross US & Canada
      • $4,134,992
    • Opening weekend US & Canada
      • $2,149,786
      • Feb 4, 1990
    • Gross worldwide
      • $4,134,992
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 40 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.85 : 1

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