The Crow 2 - City Of Angels

Starring: Mia Kirshner, Vincent Perez Director: Tim Pope Original UK Premiere: 1996 Dvd Release: 12th February, 2001 Number Of Discs: 1 Format: PAL, Widescreen, Region 2 Encoding

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City of Angels is a film that was directed by Brad Silberling in 1998. The film is a recasting of the story in Wim Wenders film Wings of Desire, but moved to Los Angeles, California. In the film, an angel falls in love with a human & has to decide whether to become mortal to spend human life with her. Johnny Rzeznik of the Goo Goo Dolls wrote Iris specifically for this soundtrack, though it was also included on their 1998 CD, Dizzy Up the Girl City of Angels was also the name of a short-lived television series which told the story of a private detective in 1930s Los Angeles, California. It starred Wayne Rogers. City of Angels was also the name of a musical comedy with music by Cy Coleman, lyrics by David Zippel & book by Larry Gelbart. It was set in Los Angeles in the late 1940s & ran on Broadway from 1989 to 1992.

Because of his tragic death on the set of The Crow, well never know if Brandon Lee would have turned one successful film into a popular series. But one look at this tepid sequel suggests that not even the charismatic Lee could have rescued The Crow movies from the burden of a lacklustre screenplay. Based on the popular comic books by James OBarr, this sequel finds Vincent Pérez as a man named Ashe, who is murdered along with his young son by a gang of drug-running thugs under the employ of slimy kingpin Judah Earl . Ashe is resurrected with the help of a tattoo artist named Sarah , whereupon he begins a campaign of revenge against his killers. More a rehash than a sequel, the film repeats the grungy, dark look of urban decay from The Crow, but its combination of violence, heavy-handed symbolism & tacky sentiment make this a film strictly for nihilistic teens. Then again, no movie in which veteran punkster Iggy Pop plays a slimeball can be considered a total loss. ,

Mia Kirshner is a Canadian actress who works in movies & television series. Born in Toronto, Ontario, she is a granddaughter of Holocaust survivors. Her father, Sheldon, a journalist for The Canadian Jewish News, was born in a Displaced person camp in Germany in 1946. He met her mother, Etti, a Bulgarian, in Israel. Kirshner has a younger sister. Kirshner studied Russian literature at McGill University in Montreal. Dracula. The Series. Sophie Metternich. Murder in the First. Adult Rosetta Young. Not Another Teen Movie. Catherine Wyler. Posters Of Mia Kirshner

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