Angel Heart (1987)

R03/06/1987Horror, Mystery1h 53m
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It will scare you to your very soul.

Overview

A down-and-out Brooklyn detective is hired to track down a singer on an odyssey that will take him through the desperate streets of Harlem, the smoke-filled jazz clubs of New Orleans, and the swamps of Louisiana and its seedy underworld of voodoo.

Top Billed Cast

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    Mickey Rourke

    Harry Angel

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    Robert De Niro

    Louis Cyphre

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    Lisa Bonet

    Epiphany Proudfoot

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    Charlotte Rampling

    Margaret Krusemark

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    Stocker Fontelieu

    Ethan Krusemark

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    Brownie McGhee

    Toots Sweet

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    Michael Higgins

    Doctor Fowler

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    Elizabeth Whitcraft

    Connie

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    Eliott Keener

    Sterne

"Harry Angel" (Mickey O'Rourke) lives a pretty hand-to-mouth existence as a New York PI when he is hired to track down a musician named "Johnny Favorite". Now this fella really doesn't want to be found, and after a while our street-smart investigator begins to contemplate that maybe this search isn't really all that his employer "Louis Cyphre" (a Rasputin-esque Robert De Niro) has in mind. As the search becomes more intricate, "Angel" finds himself having doors slammed in his face, or even worse before he is immersed in a world of voodoo in a distinctly unwelcoming New Orleans. Corpses are sta...