Angels are everywhere, on highway signs, building tops, and in libraries. Dressed in black trench coats they hang out, unseen, eavesdropping while waiting for people to croak so they can escort them to the hereafter. No wonder angel Seth (Cage) gets the hots for a perky surgeon (Ryan). He meets her in her operating room, which apparently is a good place for picking up angel-business, i.e., the newly deceased. This also explains why angels like to hang out on interstate highway signs...but libraries? Anyway it turns out that angels can "go human" if they wish. Now this is not at all as good a deal as skipping college and going straight to the pros for the big payday. No, this is irreversible and earns the changeling angel such human features as hunger, aging, pain, and death. Why would an angel do it? For Meg Ryan? For the munchies?
If you like this kind of stuff (and I generally don't) instead rent Wim Wender's original movie, Wings of Desire, of which City of Angels is a remake.
If you like this kind of stuff (and I generally don't) instead rent Wim Wender's original movie, Wings of Desire, of which City of Angels is a remake.