Released Date:
1981-07-24
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
107 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
7.4 (24453 Reviews)
Director:
Brian De PalmaThis stylish Brian De Palma thriller plays off the theme of the unsuspecting witness who discovers a crime and is thereby put in grave danger, but with a novel twist. Jack Terry is a master sound recordist who works on grade-B horror movies. Late one evening, he is recording sounds for use in his movies when he hears something unexpected through his sound equipment and records it. Curiosity gets the better of him when the media become involved, and he begins to unravel the pieces of a nefarious conspiracy. As he struggles to survive against his shadowy enemies and expose the truth, he does not know whom he can trust.
Released Date:
1998-04-10
Languages:
English
Countries:
Germany, USA
Runtime:
114 min
Rated:
PG-13
IMDB Ratings:
6.7 (88727 Reviews)
Director:
Brad SilberlingWim Wenders (screenplay)
Peter Handke (screenplay)
Richard Reitinger (screenplay)
Dana Stevens (screenplay)
Seth is an angel who accompanies the spirits of the recently dead to the ever after. Seth has never been human and so has has never experienced touch or taste. When in the hospital however he comes across Dr. Maggie Rice, a brilliant young heart surgeon who is devoted to her profession and her patients. Seth has the power to let himself be seen but Maggie finds him far too mysterious. Seth also meets a patient, Nathaniel Messinger, who has news for him - he too was once an angel like Seth but chose to fall to Earth and become human. Seth makes a decision on his future, which does not turn out as he had expected.
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