Michael

Overview

Traditionally, angels are supposed to have snowy wings, spotless flowing robes and be bathed in heavenly light, but not Michael (John Travolta). With a hairy pot belly, long hair, a cigarette addiction, an insatiable sugar craving and filthy wings, the archangel Michael is anything but angelic looking. His unkempt appearance and the fact that he is found holed up in a ramshackle boarding house in a beat-up Iowa backwater, makes it even harder to believe that he is anything but a bum. Still when the publisher of the National Mirror, the country's top tabloid learns there may be an angel afoot, he sends three reporters out to cover the story. Slightly embittered writer Frank Quinlan (William Hurt) hopes the story will bust him out of his slump. Hapless photographer Huey (Robert Pastorelli) worries that one more botched job will cause publisher Vartan Malt (Bob Hoskins) to take away his one lucrative gig shooting celebrity wonder-dog Sparky. The enigmatic Dorothy (Andie MacDowell) is supposedly an expert on all things angelic. Together the disparate trio travel to Iowa and meet Pansy Millbank (Jean Stapleton) the aged owner of a run-down rooming house who tells them how Michael miraculously saved her from financial ruin. In return, she allows him to stay at her place. Naturally, the reporters want to meet this phenomenon, but they are ill-prepared at what groggily stumps down the stairs to greet them. From the stubble-faced, boxer-short wearing, smouldering mess before them, they learn that all high-ranking angels are allowed 26 Earthly vacations for all eternity. This is Michael's final vacation and he wants to have fun. The reporters only want to get as much publicity as they can from their ethereal visitor and so set off with him to Chicago. Along the way, they have many funny misadventures.

Product Details

Release Date:	11/01/2016
UPC:	0888574445522
Original Release:	1996
Source:	Warner Archives
Language:	English

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

John Travolta	Michael,Reporter No. 1
Andie MacDowell	Dorothy Winters
William Hurt	Frank Quinlan
Bob Hoskins	Vartan Malt
Robert Pastorelli	Huey Driscoll
Jean Stapleton	Pansy Milbank
Teri Garr	Judge Esther Newberg
Wallace Langham	Bruce Craddock
Joey Lauren Adams	Anita
Carla Gugino	Bride
Tom Hodges	Groom
Catherine Lloyd Burns	Evie
Richard Schiff	Italian Waiter
Calvin Trillin	Sheriff
Donald J. Lee Jr.	Court Bailiff
Don Lee	Court Bailiff
Joann Jansen	Tammy,Tammy
David Harrod	Mal
Jane Lanier	Suzanne
John Hussey	Minister
Betsy Sokolow	Reporter No. 3
Tracey A. Doyle	Reporter No. 4,reporter
Blue Deckert	Joe
Debrah Nunez	Woman No. 1
Dell Aldrich	Woman No. 2
Kay Colvin	Woman No. 3
James Harrell	Old Geezer No. 1
Peyton Park	Old Geezer No. 2
Dianne Dreyer	Jennifer
Tim Harrison	Slacker No. 1
Daniel Mimura	Slacker No. 2
Mark Nutter	Counterman
Carla Cugino	bride
David Bernstein	reporter
James Garrell	old geezer
Randy Newman	Conductor,Musician,Composer

Technical Credits

Nora Ephron

Pete Dexter

Jim Quinlan

Nora Ephron	Director,Producer,Executive Producer,Screenwriter,Screenwriter,Producer
David Blitstein	Special Effects
Charlie Croughwell	Stunts
Sean Daniel	Producer
Mary Goldberg	Casting
James Jacks	Producer
Jonathan D. Krane	Executive Producer,Producer
Pete Dexter	Screenwriter
Jim Quinlan	Screenwriter
Beau Baker	Sound Effects
Sony Pictures Imageworks	Special Effects
Debbie Denise	Executive Producer
Ralph Horan	Executive Producer
Jo Boldin	Casting
Colin Campbell	Sound/Sound Designer
Warren Shaw	Sound Editor
Dan Korintus	Sound Editor