1998
Running Time: 117 minutes
Studio: Warner Bros
Director: Brad Silberling
Cast: Nicolas Cage, Meg Ryan, Dennis Franz, Andre Braugher

Synopsis
CITY OF ANGELS is a sweet but unbelievable love story about an angel and a surgeon falling in love. Seth (Nicolas Cage) is sent to the county hospital to watch over Maggie (Meg Ryan), a highly skilled surgeon. Seth becomes so attracted to Maggie that she feels his presence and he is able to let her see him. They begin a strange friendship that develops into love. Seth is one of dozens of angels who look human, dress in long black overcoats, and gather at sunrise and sunset on the Los Angeles beach. Besides the dying, young children and Maggie, one of Maggie's patients, Nathan Messinger (Dennis Franz), can see Seth. He tells Seth he too was an angel but opted to "give up eternity" so he could experience human feelings and emotions. Seth decides to become human so he and Maggie can be together. This strange love story makes little sense, and the characters are unconvincing. But the film still could prove to be popular.

Plot:
An angel must decide if love is more important than eternal peace in this Americanized adaptation of Wim Wenders' modern classic Wings of Desire. Seth (Nicholas Cage) is an angel who hovers over the city of Los Angeles, listening to people's thoughts, observing their lives, and guiding them to the next world when they die. While Seth and his fellow angels try to offer comfort to people as they can, they are discouraged from direct contact with humans and are usually invisible to them. While at a hospital, Seth sees Maggie (Meg Ryan), a dedicated heart surgeon who attempts to save the life of a patient Seth was to call upon. Maggie is distraught after the patient passes, and her agony touches something inside the reserved Seth; he finds himself falling in love with her, and he decides to make himself visible so he can communicate with her. As Maggie gets to know the strange visitor in black who has suddenly appeared in her life, she finds herself torn between her new feelings for Seth and her attachment to her fiancé Jordan (Colm Feore), a fellow doctor. Seth, on the other hand, has a serious choice to make -- between immortality and giving it up in order to know both the pleasures and pains of being a human being. City of Angels also stars Dennis Franz as Messinger, a patient at the hospital who has some important advice for Seth.AC