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Almost An Angel
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Almost An Angel is a 1990 religious supernatural Comedy starring Paul Hogan as Terry Dean, a skilled burglar who has just been released from jail. Knowing he's too skilled to pull off his standard jobs and not be caught for being recognized, he tries to go into the field of bank robbery using Latex Perfection to disguise himself. However, shortly after he gets started, he sees a child about to get hit by a car, and so he rushes to protect the child, taking the hit from the truck himself. Laying in the hospital, he has a dream where God tells him that his act of self-sacrifice, though pure instinct, has earned him a second chance, and he will be sent back to work as a provisional angel. Dismissing the dream, Terry attempts to rob another bank once he's out of the hospital, only to run into another group of bank robbers. One of them shoots Terry point blank, and he is unharmed (the leader of the gang knew the shooter would be nervous, so he loaded the gun with blanks, but Terry had no way to know this). Now accepting that his dream was real, Terry decides he'd better live up to his provisional angel status, and starts working to help others, Hilarity Ensues. The film also stars Elias Koteas, Linda Kozlowski note who worked with Hogan previously on Crocodile Dundee. and a cameo by Charlton Heston as God. | |
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Angel Unaware: Terry is this to the audience, who have been made to believe he's actually delusional. | |
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Bait-and-Switch: Everything about the film is set up to make us believe that Terry's reformation is based on a dream, and that he's not actually an Angel. Until the end of the film, when an 18 wheeler passes right through him. | |
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Bad Ass Pacifist: Terry is taking his duties as an Angel seriously, so he is adhering to Thou Shall Not Kill. However, he's not above beating up a pair of drug dealers trying to hook the youth center kids. As he says this is allowed, as Jesus cast the money changers out of the temple. | |
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