After Frank and Dorothy go their separate ways, Michael returns one more time (this time with Pansy in tow) and successfully gets Frank and Dorothy back together for good. The group reaches Chicago just in time for Michael to see the Sears Tower (which he has always wanted to see) before disappearing. In the process, he uses up his allotment of miracles and begins to weaken. During the trip, Michael's mission on Earth is slowly revealed to be to get Frank and Dorothy together despite both having had bad experiences with love.Īfter Sparky is hit by a truck and killed, Michael brings him back to life. Michael reveals that this was his plan from the beginning. When pressed for the type of angel he is, he replies he is an archangel, with Pansy boasting he triumphed over Lucifer in the War in Heaven.Īfter Pansy unexpectedly dies, Frank and Huey decide to take Michael to Chicago.
While Michael has wings and smells like cookies, he has an unexpected taste for cigarettes and sugar, seems rather boorish at first, and does not appear clean. He chooses Frank Quinlan Huey Driscoll, a photographer and owner of the Mirror star Sparky the Wonder Dog and Dorothy Winters, hired by Malt to eventually replace Driscoll.Īt the boarding house of Pansy Milbank, they meet her tenant Michael. The editor, Vartan Malt, receives a story tip about a woman living with an angel in her house in a small town in Iowa, and decides to send three staff members to investigate. The National Mirror is a tabloid publication that reports primarily on unexplainable phenomena. The dance scene and other location shots were filmed at the community center of Holy Trinity Catholic Church in Cornhill, Texas, and on country roads near Walburg, Texas, as well as at Texas' Gruene Hall. The original music score was composed by Randy Newman. The cast also includes Andie MacDowell, William Hurt, Bob Hoskins, Joey Lauren Adams, and Robert Pastorelli as people who cross Michael's path.
The film stars John Travolta as the Archangel Michael, who is sent to Earth to do various tasks, including mending some wounded hearts. Michael is a 1996 American comedy fantasy film directed by Nora Ephron.
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