Angel Heart

Director Alan Parker's Controversial Mystery Thriller from 1987

"Harry Angel is searching for the truth... Pray he doesn't find it."

Right now, I cannot think of a truer tagline for a movie than the one for "Angel Heart," an Alan Parker directed movie starring Mickey Rourke, Robert De Niro, and "The Cosby Show's" Lisa Bonet. It follows the story of Private Detective named Harry Angel played by Rourke who is hired by a mysterious man named Louis Cyphre (Robert De Niro in his best impersonation ever of Martin Scorsese) to track down the last whereabouts of a famous singer. This singer is presumed dead, but it turns out that may not be the case as Harry finds that he was transferred out of the hospital years ago, and while people say that this singer is dead, they cannot convince themselves of that. Angel's journey into discovery takes him from the snowy and gospel filled streets of Harlem all the way out to the sweaty bayous of Louisiana. In "Angel Heart," curiosity may not kill the cat, but it can sure frazzle and scar it for life. We search for the truth throughout our lives, but we never taken into account the possible consequences of what we may find.