{"id":40412,"date":"2025-10-30T07:57:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T11:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=40412"},"modified":"2025-10-31T06:41:28","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T10:41:28","slug":"angel-heart-1987-written-directed-by-alan-parker-starring-mickey-rourke-robert-deniro-lisa-bonet-z-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=40412","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Angel Heart&#8221; (1987) written &amp; directed by Alan Parker; starring Mickey Rourke, Robert DeNiro &amp; Lisa Bonet \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2025\/z103025zview_angelheart.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"766\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Angel Heart <\/strong><\/em>(1987)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Director:\u00a0 <strong>Alan Parker<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Screenplay: <strong>Alan Parker;\u00a0<\/strong>based on <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/4hw9AXM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">FALLING ANGEL<\/a> by <strong>William Hjortsberg<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stars: <strong>Mickey Rourke, Robert De Niro, Lisa Bonet, Charlotte Rampling, Dann Florek, Kathleen Wilhoite <\/strong>and <strong>Pruitt Taylor Vince.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline: <em>Harry Angel has been hired to search for the truth&#8230; Pray he doesn&#8217;t find it.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Plot\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">1955.\u00a0 Louis Cypher wants money owed to him.\u00a0 Before the War, Cypher entered into a contract with a singer who went by the stage name Johnny Favorite.\u00a0 Favorite became a very popular crooner&#8230; then World War II hit and Favorite&#8217;s star waned.\u00a0 But for a time, Johnny Favorite was the flavor of the day.\u00a0 Favorite never paid Cypher his due.\u00a0 And you don&#8217;t run out on Louis Cypher.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">So Cypher hires New York Private Eye Harry Angel.\u00a0 He&#8217;s to track down Johnny Favorite and report back to Cypher.\u00a0 What sounds like an easy assignment becomes anything but.\u00a0 Angel will find the trail leads to New Orleans and black magic, voodoo and more than one murder.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong style=\"font-size: inherit; color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font);\">Thoughts (beware of spoilers)\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Unless you were around at the time of the film&#8217;s release it&#8217;s hard to imagine the controversy the casting of Lisa Bonet caused.\u00a0 At that time she was one of the stars of <em>The Cosby Show<\/em>.\u00a0 The show was a network juggernaut.\u00a0 Bill Cosby (despite what came out about him later) always promoted comedy for the entire family. Bonet&#8217;s role in <em>Angel Heart<\/em>, was very sexual with a prolonged nude sex scene. Plus it was her first feature film role.\u00a0 She more than held her own.<\/p>\n<p><em>Angel Heart<\/em> is an under-rated horror film.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em><strong>Angel Heart <\/strong><\/em>(1987) rates 4 of 5 stars.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_b.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2025\/z103025zview_angelheart2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"330\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Angel Heart (1987) Director:\u00a0 Alan Parker Screenplay: Alan Parker;\u00a0based on FALLING ANGEL by William Hjortsberg Stars: Mickey Rourke, Robert De<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[52,17,53,54,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-celebs","category-horror","category-movies","category-z-view"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40412"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40412\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40427,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40412\/revisions\/40427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}