Directed by: Brad Silberling
Writing credits: Wim Wenders, Peter Handke, Richard Reitinger, Dana Stevens
Movie Genre: Drama/Romance
Released: 1998
Running Time: 114 minutes
Rating: PG13
An angel must decide if love is more important than eternal peace in this 1998 adaptation of Wim Wenders' German classic Wings of Desire (1987).
Seth is an angel who hovers over the city of Los Angeles, listening to people's thoughts, observing their lives, and guiding them to the next world when they die.
While Seth and his fellow angels try to offer comfort to people as they can, they are discouraged from direct contact with humans and are usually invisible to them.
While at a hospital Seth sees Maggie, a dedicated heart surgeon who attempts to save the life of a patient Seth was to call upon.
Maggie is distraught after the patient passes, and her agony touches something inside the reserved Seth. He finds himself falling in love with her, and he decides to make himself visible so he can communicate with her.
As Maggie gets to know the strange visitor in black who has suddenly appeared in her life, she finds herself torn between her new feelings for Seth and her attachment to her fiancé Jordan), a fellow doctor.
Seth, on the other hand, has a serious choice to make — between immortality and giving it up in order to know both the pleasures and pains of being a human being.
Tagline: She didn't believe in angels until she fell in love with one.