Line #14 Film/DateWithAnAngel


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2	[[caption-width-right:350: [[{{Tagline}} Jim is about to marry a princess...but he’s in love with an angel]].]]
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4	''Date With An Angel'' is a 1987 fantasy romantic comedy. It [[FollowTheLeader followed on the heels of similar films]] like ''Film/{{Splash}}'' (1984) and ''{{Film/Mannequin}}'' (1987).
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6	Aspiring composer Jim Sanders (Creator/MichaelEKnight) is engaged to cute, classy and sassy Patty Winston (Creator/PhoebeCates). His life is turned upside down when an Angel with a broken wing (Creator/EmmanuelleBeart in her first English-language role. [[CuteMute ...well kind of]]) crash lands into his swimming pool.
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10	!!This film exhibits the following tropes:
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12	* AfterlifeWelcome: The Angel’s mission was to escort [[spoiler: Jim]] to the afterlife.
13	* AngelicBeauty: Well, she ''is'' played by Creator/EmmanuelleBeart. It helps that the SoftFocus gives the Angel “a heavenly glow”.
14	* BewareTheNiceOnes: The Angel might look and act innocent, but if anyone tries to hurt Jim, she’s not afraid to unleash her wrath on them. Not only does the Angel use the power of {{Invisibility}} to throw Patty on the ground and then [[LiteralAssKicking literally kick Patty’s butt]] but she also forces rain clouds to remain above the heads of Patty and her father wherever they go.
15	* BrokenAngel: Played straight. The Angel has a broken wing and this causes her to lose her supernatural abilities.
16	* {{Confessional}}: Jim tries to gain the help of the Catholic Church. He winds up, very confused, in a confessional.
17	* CrazyConsumption: The Angel LOVES french fries.
18	* CuteMute: The Angel only rarely attempts to communicate, doesn’t speak English, and is adorable.
19	* FishOutOfWater: Played straight. The Angel has no idea about how to interact with the human race.
20	* FriendToAllLivingThings: The Angel is adored by every animal she meets.
21	* GodivaHair: The Angel takes a bath in a forest lake. The PG rating survives intact.
22	* HairOfGoldHeartOfGold: Played about as straight as a trope was ever played.
23	* HospitalHottie: At the end of the movie we see the Angel in an anachronistic white nurse’s uniform. Needless to say, she rocks it.
24	* HypnoticEyes: The Angel can use her radiant smile and InnocentBlueEyes to calm down just about anyone or anything.
25	* InnocentFanserviceGirl: As the Angel is bathing naked in a forest lake (albeit with her body covered by her GodivaHair, as well as it being [[CensorSteam obscured by the mist]]), she’s completely unaware that [[ThePeepingTom Jim is watching her from behind the bushes]].
26	* {{Invisibility}}: The Angel has this ability once she regains her powers.
27	* ItIsNotYourTime: [[spoiler: Jim was dying of a brain tumor. The Angel invoked divine intervention and spared him from his fate.]]
28	* LiteralAssKicking: “He kicked me in my heinie!” [[spoiler: Actually, the Angel kicked her while invisible.]]
29	* LoveAtFirstSight: Duh, it’s ''Creator/EmmanuelleBeart''.
30	* MagicalGirlfriend: Jim ditches Patty [[DivineDate to be with the Angel]].
31	* NoNameGiven: The Angel is never named.
32	* OnlyInItForTheMoney: Ed Winston is willing to dump his daughter as the face of his company when something prettier comes along. Ouch.
33	* RecycledInSpace: The film is basically ''Film/{{Splash}}'' with wings!
34	* SecretlyDying: [[spoiler: Jim is taking insane amounts of aspirin during the film. At the end we learn that he was dying from a brain tumor. That’s why the Angel came for him; to escort him to the afterlife.]]
35	* StarfishLanguage: The Angel sometimes speaks in a musical/birdlike language.
36	* TheAllegedCar: Jim's car had a passenger door held shut using a rope. His buddies drive something even worse.
37	* TheMerch: In-Universe, Jim’s friends try to build a merchandise line around the discovery of a genuine angel. (One presumes that this would be staggeringly difficult to trademark.)
38	* ThePeepingTom: When Jim parts the bushes, he immediately closes them after he’s shocked by what he saw. However, he gets curious and parts the bushes again, where he sees the Angel bathing naked in a forest lake, and he stares at her in awe.
39	* ThePrankster: Jim’s three friends are this, though the prank that opens the movie, [[spoiler: staging a fake terrorist attack,]] has aged like milk.
40	* TheVoice: We hear God speak at the start of the movie.
41	* WomanScorned: Jim’s fiancée, Patty, is not at all amused that Jim has found (what she believes to be) a new girlfriend. She degenerates through the course of the movie as the humiliations pile up.

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