Starring: John Travolta, Andie MacDowell, William Hurt, Bob Hoskins, Robert Pastorelli Directed By: Nora Ephron Average Rating: Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1 Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested) Binding: DVD Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC Number of Items: 1 Region Code: 1 Release Date: June 11, 1997 Running Time: 105 minutes Studio: Turner Home Ent Theatrical Release Date: December 25, 1996
Product Description: Tabloid reporters go to investigate reports that an angel is living in Iowa and imagine their surprise when they indeed do find an angel. Genre: Feature Film-Comedy Rating: PG Release Date: 8-FEB-2005 Media Type: DVD
Amazon.com: After the box-office success of Phenomenon, John Travolta continued to charm audiences with this 1996 comedy-fantasy in which he plays a grubby angel who's got one last good deed to do before heading back to heaven. Living peacefully in the rural Iowa home of an old, friendly motel owner (Jean Stapleton), the winged Michael (Travolta) is hardly the image of a perfect angel. He's scruffy, unshaven, eats sweetened cereal by the box-full and chain-smokes all day long. But when tabloid reporters (William Hurt, Robert Pastorelli) learn of Michael's alleged existence and head to Iowa to check him out, Michael soon realizes that it's his task to see that Hurt falls in love with an "angel expert" (Andie MacDowell) and breaks free from his habitually cynical attitude. There's more to the story, of course (and Chasing Amy fans will recognize Joey Lauren Adams as a waitress who charms the angel), but Michael is more about the effect that this enchanting angel has on the earthbound humans around him. Whether he's chipping away at Hurt's skepticism or attracting a crowd of women on a truck-stop dance floor, Michael is an enchanting figure, and Travolta plays him with just the right tone of humor, reverence, and effervescent charm. Sure, it's lightweight fluff, but director Nora Ephron specializes in lightweight fluff, and Michael is the kind of feel-good movie that never wears out its welcome. --Jeff Shannon
Michael (Snap Case) ^ Frank Quinlan and Huey Driscoll, two reporters from a Chicago-based tabloid, along with Dorothy Winters, an 'angel expert', are asked to travel to rural Iowa to investigate a claim from an old woman that she shares her house with a real, live archangel named Michael. Upon arrival, they see that her claims are true, but Michael is not what they expected. He smokes, drinks beer, has a very active libido and has a rather colourful vocabulary. In fact, they would never believe it were it not for the two feathery wings protruding from his back. Michael agrees to travel to Chicago with the threesome, but what they don't realise is that the journey they are about to undertake will change their lives forever. Travolta gives one of his breeziest and most likable performances as Michael, an archangel whose quiet existence at the home of a lonely innkeeper named Pansy. "MICHAEL" is warm and winning comedy-fantasy. Watch this if you want to have a few laughs and a overall good time. Highly recommended.
Excellent - faith and action ^ Mostly I bought this for my wife, who loves it.
It has some irreverence, some cool twists, and a good ending.
Fun to watch.
the angel made human ^ This movie is great for several reasons. It makes angels more human. It is a love story. It is FULL of great actors and they fit their parts in this movie perfectly. The music is wonderful.
A Great Angle Story ^ this is an awesome movie. i love this movie and so will you. I recommend this movie to everyone
A jewel of a movie ^ This movie received no critical acclaim. What a shame! It gets better every time that I watch it. The casting was perfect. It manages to be irreverent, yet thought provoking. I recommend it as a cure for the common blues.
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