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City of Angels (PG-13)
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This came out in 1998. I saw it sometime after that, when it was playing on a long bus ride I took (most likely in 1999, but I can't remember for sure). I feel like maybe the bus ride ended before the movie did, so I had to somehow catch the end sometime later, but I don't remember for sure about that, either. In fact, I don't remember much of anything about the movie, beyond the basic plot. It was about an angel named Seth (Nicolas Cage) who falls in love with a human woman, a surgeon named Maggie (Meg Ryan). The only other character I remember at all is a patient of Maggie's named Nathaniel (Dennis Franz), who had previously been an angel himself, and chose to fall (i.e., become human). So Seth considers falling, himself, to be with Maggie.

I don't want to spoil anything about how it all turns out, but I will say I remember hating how it ended. I don't remember what I thought of the movie in general, but I don't think I was wild about any of it. Still, if I watched it again someday (which I probably won't), I might like it more than I remembered, and rate it highly enough to move out of the "meh" section. Or not.


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