Almost an Angel

Almost an Angel (1990) is a gentle comedy you can watch online on iFILM, directed by John Cornell and built entirely around Paul Hogan. He plays Terry Dean, a soft-hearted safecracker and electronics whiz who walks out of prison and robs a bank within the week.

Then a car nearly kills him. Terry pushes a kid out of its path, lands in the hospital, and dreams that God — voiced by Charlton Heston — sends him back to Earth to make up for a misspent life. He wakes up dead certain he's now an angel. No wings, no powers, just an ex-con's bag of tricks for doing good deeds the hard way. Linda Kozlowski and a young Elias Koteas round out the cast.

Hogan wrote it riding the wave of Crocodile Dundee, and the whole thing leans on his lopsided grin and a stubborn belief that a crook can still turn decent. Easy, warm-hearted viewing with nothing hiding underneath. Stream Almost an Angel (1990) online on iFILM.