Michael

A team of tabloid reporters travel across the Midwest to follow up on a report of an angel. What they find challenges every belief they ever had of what an angel is supposed to be. While they lose their skepticism fairly early on, as a viewing public, we don't lose it quite as quickly. Somehow throughout the film, we begin to believe more and more, and that's the magic of the story.

John Travolta somehow seems the most unlikely angel in this movie, but as we see the story unfold we get it, and we realize that instead of challenging our ideas of what an angel is supposed to be, he's exactly what we thought an angel was. He just goes about it a little differently than we would have thought. Somehow by the end of this movie, every belief I had seemed to come to life.

Nora Ephron is not a genius, but she is a good story teller within her small world of reporters. This movie that she wrote is very good and that is in large part because of John Travolta who plays a real life angel that mere mortals -- actually lesser mortals because they are reporters -- try to make sense of. Travolta has a way of expanding any part he is given, whether it's a lead role in Grease or a lead role in Michael. This is a romantic comedy, heavy on the chick-flick genre, with some bonus dancing by Travolta who is always a treat whenever he hoofs it. Andy MacDowell is pretty to watch, and Bill Hurt gets a paycheck for his one note performance that he seems to give in every movie he's ever in.