Entertainment Weekly, 09/18/1998, p.94, "...This New Agey take will still engage the heartrings of any mortal with the teensiest desire to believe..." -- Rating: B
Chicago Sun-Times, 04/10/1998, p.33, "...[Ryan is] sunny and persuasive....This is one of her best performances....There are revelations in this story..."
Los Angeles Times, 04/10/1998, p.C1, "...CITY OF ANGELS does a haunting job of creating a lifestyle and a look for its heavenly creatures..."
Box Office, 06/01/1998, p.79, "...It succeeds, thanks to Nicholas Cage's lovable puppy-dog-eyed appeal..."
Sight and Sound, 07/1998, p.37-8, "...Cage's performance [is] at once intense and ethereal..."
DVD Features:
Region 1
Snap Case
Anamorphic Widescreen - 2.35
Dual Side - Single Layer
Audio:
Dolby Digital 5.1- English
Dolby Surround - French
Additional Release Material:
Featurette
Documentary - 1. Visual Effects
Deleted Scenes/Outtakes
Audio Commentary - 1. John Seale - Cinematographer;
2. Lilly Kilvert - Production Designer
3. Brad Silberling - Director
4. Dana Stevens - Writer, Charles Roven - Producer
5. Brad Silberling - Director, Lynzee Klingman - Editor
Production Interviews - 1. Alanis Morissette
2. Peter Gabriel
Isolated Audio Track - 1. Score
Music Videos - 1. Goo Goo Dolls
2. U2
Trailers
Interactive Features:
Interactive Menus
Scene Access
Text/Photo Galleries:
Production Notes
Based in part on Wim Wenders's 1988 film, WINGS OF DESIRE, this is the story of Seth (Nicolas Cage), an angel who wanders the Los Angeles area invisible to humans. As someone's death approaches, he spends time near that person and becomes visible while acting as traveling companion during the trip to the great hereafter. His discovery of a distraught heart surgeon, Maggie (Meg Ryan), inspires him to forego his immortality and exist on earth with her as a feeling and mortal entity.