City of Angels

About City of Angels

When a guardian angel – who invisibly watches over the citizens of Los Angeles – becomes captivated by a strong-willed heart surgeon, he ponders trading in his pure, otherworldly existence for a mortal life with his beloved. The couple embarks on a tender but forbidden romance spanning heaven and Earth.

City of Angels is a 1998 fantasy romance film directed by Brad Silberling. The film is filed under faith, afterlife, angel, and life and death.

Nicolas Cage stars as Seth, Meg Ryan as Maggie, Dennis Franz as Messinger, and Andre Braugher as Cassiel. It runs 114 minutes and was released in April 1998.

The screenplay is by Dana Stevens. Produced by Atlas Entertainment. It streams on Howdy Amazon Channel in the United States.

Heaven Can Wait, Dead Like Me: Life After Death, and Reefer Madness: The Movie Musical make useful companions to City of Angels, all filed under suicide. TMDB voters put it at 6.8 out of 10 across 2,457 votes and it carries a PG-13 rating.