City of Angels

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City of Angels

Directed by	Brad Silberling
Produced by	Charles Roven Dawn Steel Charles Newirth
Written by	Wim Wenders Peter Handke Richard Reitinger Dana Stevens
Starring	Nicolas Cage Meg Ryan Andre Braugher Dennis Franz Colm Feore
Music by	Gabriel Yared
Distributed by	Warner Bros. (US only)
Release date(s)	10 April 1998
Running time	114 min.
Language	English
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This article is about the 1998 film. For other uses, see City of Angels (disambiguation).

City of Angels is a film that was directed by Brad Silberling in 1998. The film stars Nicolas Cage and Meg Ryan. Set in Los Angeles, California, U.S., the film is a remake of Wim Wenders' 1987 German film Wings of Desire, which was set in Berlin. In the film, an angel (Cage) falls in love with a human woman (Ryan) and has to decide whether to become mortal to spend human life with her.

The Angel who becomes human is a sort of herdsman for the dead, known simply as Seth. He listens to music every dawn and dusk, which apparently originates in the sunrise and sunset. With him are scores of other Angels, invisible and undetected by human adults. Seth spends considerable time thinking about humans; he becomes very interested in their thoughts, particularly those of a female surgeon.

A soundtrack album, City of Angels: Music from the Motion Picture, preceded the film's U.S. release.