Angel Heart

Director: Alan Parker

1987 / 113min / 35mm

An unusually explicit erotic thriller with more than a touch of the supernatural, Parker’s brazenly baroque adaptation of William Hjortsberg’s novel Falling Angel stars Mickey Rourke at his most beautiful as a private eye in Robert Wagner–era New York City who, hired onto a missing person case by a sinister client going by the name “Louis Cyphre” (Robert De Niro, shelling a hard-boiled egg with relish), lights out for New Orleans, where his investigation will expose him to brutal ritual murders, back-alley gumbo huts, and the considerable charms of the seductive Epiphany Proudfoot (Lisa Bonet, on a break from The Cosby Show and zestily slumming it up). “An exuberant exercise in style… Parker and his actors have fun taking it to the limit.” —Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times

Distributor: Rialto Pictures

Part of When Carolco Was King