110 mins |
Rated
R16 (Contains Violence and Sex Scenes)
Starring Robert De Niro, Mickey Rourke
Set in 1955, in NYC, where the mysterious Louis Cyphre (Robert De Niro) hires a second-rate Brooklyn divorce specialist investigator, the private detective Harry Angel (Mickey Rourke), to find a missing crooner named Johnny Favorite, who reneged on fulfilling his contract. The disheveled private dick gets paid handsomely for his efforts that take him on a strange and dangerous soul-searching journey to a Poughkeepsie mental hospital, Harlem, Coney Island in the winter, New Orleans and the Louisiana bayou. The tale comes with a Satanic cult twist, as Angel traces the pop singer’s disappearance when he was a soldier in 1943 and hospitalized Poughkeepsie because of traumatic amnesia. After interviewing those who could lead him to Johnny, Angel discovers that they are ritually murdered in a cultish gruesome fashion and the detective becomes the patsy who is setup as the killer. A Stunning 4k Restoration presentation at the Lumiere..
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Set in 1955, in NYC, where the mysterious Louis Cyphre (Robert De Niro) hires a second-rate Brooklyn divorce specialist investigator, the private detective Harry Angel (Mickey Rourke), to find a missing crooner named Johnny Favorite, who reneged on fulfilling his contract. The disheveled private dick gets paid handsomely for his efforts that take him on a strange and dangerous soul-searching journey to a Poughkeepsie mental hospital, Harlem, Coney Island in the winter, New Orleans and the Louisiana bayou. The tale comes with a Satanic cult twist, as Angel traces the pop singer’s disappearance when he was a soldier in 1943 and hospitalized Poughkeepsie because of traumatic amnesia. After interviewing those who could lead him to Johnny, Angel discovers that they are ritually murdered in a cultish gruesome fashion and the detective becomes the patsy who is setup as the killer. A Stunning 4k Restoration presentation at the Lumiere..