Angel Eyes (film)

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Angel Eyes
Image:Angel eyes ver1.jpg Promotional film poster
Directed by	Luis Mandoki
Produced by	Bruce Berman
Written by	Gerald Di Pego
Starring	Jennifer Lopez, James Caviezel, Jeremy Sisto, Terrence Howard, Sonia Braga, Victor Argo, Monet Mazur
Music by	Marco Beltrami, Julius Robinson, Michael Sherwood
Cinematography	Piotr Sobocinski
Editing by	Gerald B. Greenberg
Release date(s)	May 18, 2001
Running time	102 min
Country	United States
Language	English
IMDb profile

Angel Eyes is a 2001 drama/romance film, directed by Luis Mandoki.

1 Plot
2 U.S. box office
3 Trivia
4 Main cast
5 Filming locations
6 See also
7 External links

Plot

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

The film opens on an accident scene on a wet rainy night in Chicago. Sharon Pogue (Jennifer Lopez) is a police officer at the scene and she is holding the hand of one of the victims and pleading that he hold on, not to give up and help is on the way.

The film then switches to one year later, where Sharon is now a very bitter, angry person. The reason for her anger turns out to be because she is estranged from her family. Some time in her past she had her father Carl (Victor Argo) arrested for beating her mother Josephine (Sonia Braga). Her father and brother, Larry Sr. (Jeremy Sisto) have found it hard to forgive her and so she is more or less ostracized from her family.

Meanwhile, a man named Catch (Jim Caviezel) wanders the streets of Chicago in a Zombie-like trance, doing good deeds, trying to help anybody he meets. He turns car lights off, he tells a young woman in his apartment building that she left her keys in the door.

Meawnhile, Sharon chases a criminal who gets her gun and shoots her twice but her vest protects her. Before he can shoot again, Catch jumps the man and knocks the gun away. Sharon and Catch meet at a tavern and have a drink. Sharon invites Catch to her apartment. They both don't like to tell each other much about their lives.

One night when Catch and Sharon are going out to dinner, they pass a blues club and go in. After the band has played a number, Catch notices a trumpet setting on the bandstand. He picks the trumpet up and starts to play wonderfully.

When he finishes, everyone applauds. The owner comes over and asks him where he's been keeping himself. He calls Catch by the name Steve Lambert, to which Catch denies even knowing the man. Sharon looks Steve Lambert up in the police files and discovers that he is the man whose hand she held in the car wreck at the beginning of the film. Catch's wife and child died in the car wreck. Sharon wants to help Catch heal from his emotional wounds and tries to talk about it. She tries taking him to the cemetery to see the graves of his family. He gets very upset and leaves.

Sharon is having her own problems. Her mother and father are renewing their wedding vows and have asked her to come. She was going to go with Catch but he has not answered any of her calls. At the reception after the wedding ceremony, she tries to talk to her father but he tells her that he feels like he doesn't have a daughter.

All this is going on while a man is videotaping the event. As Sharon starts to leave she stops and tells the man a wonderful story about her father, playing with herself and brother when they were children. She is deeply moved by thinking about this past occurrence and her father overhears it. When Sharon looks at him, he turns away. At the same time that the wedding and reception have been going on, we see Catch in the cemetery talking to his deceased wife and child, explaining how he remembers all the wonderful moments they shared.

When Sharon walks out of the door of the reception, Catch is standing by her car. They both have undergone emotional healings since they first met and they admit to being in love with one another. Sharon gets into her car and Catch starts to get in the passenger seat. He stops and tells Sharon that he wants to drive. He hasn't driven since the accident.

Spoilers end here.

Tagline: The Deeper You Look. The More You Will Find.

U.S. box office

As of July 15,2001 the film grossed 24 Million dollars.

Weekend Gross

$9,225,575-May 20,2001 (2,375 Screens)
$6,205,705-May 27,2001 (2,407 Screens)
$1,888,660-June 3,2001 (2,007 Screens)
$547,333-June 10,2001 (1,003 Screens)
$154,269-June 17,2001 (305 Screens)
$65,098-June 24,2001 (113 Screens)
$143,601-July 1,2001 (283 Screens)
$86,432-July 8,2001 (212 Screens)
$42,842-July 15,2001 (115 Screens)
Total Gross=$24,044,523

Trivia

The scenes in and around Sharon's parents home were filmed at the Playter Farmhouse, a historic building near the Danforth in Toronto, Ontario. Some other scenes were filmed in the nearby village of Elora.
Jennifer Lopez insisted that the part of Catch be played by James Caviezel even though she didn't know his name. She had recently been impressed with his performance in The Thin Red Line.
Ben Affleck and Aaron Eckhart were considered for the role of Catch.
All UK versions were cut to obtain a 15-rating. Warner Brothers had to remove the aggressive use of the word "cunt", or the film would have been rated 18.
Although the film is supposed to be set in Chicago, several very clear shots of Toronto skyline, including Toronto's very recognizable CN Tower appear in the film.

Main cast

Jennifer Lopez — Sharon Pogue
James Caviezel — Steven 'Catch' Lambert (as Jim Caviezel)
Jeremy Sisto — Larry Pogue, Sr.
Terrence Dashon Howard — Robby (as Terrence Howard)
Sonia Braga — Josephine Pogue
Victor Argo — Carl Pogue

Filming locations

The movie was started filming on May 8, 2000 and finished in early August that same year. There were 2 filming locations, Chicago, Illinois and Toronto Ontario, Canada.

Angel Eyes (film)

Contents

Plot

U.S. box office

Trivia

Main cast

Filming locations

See also