Australian star Paul Hogan just couldn't seem to come up with a hit comparable to his 1986 international hit
Crocodile Dundee
. Hogan's
Almost an Angel
was a nice try, but no cigar. The star plays a lifelong thief who suffers a potentially fatal accident. While "in limbo," Hogan is visited by God (amusingly played by Charlton Heston-well, why not Charlton Heston?). When he recovers, Hogan is convinced that he'd been returned to the land of the living in order to do God's work. He turns over a new leaf, coming to the assistance of wheelchair-bound Elias Koteas and his pretty sister Linda Kozlowski (the real-life Mrs. Hogan). At first suspicious of Hogan, Kozlowski is finally won over by his new-found sincerity. So lightweight that it threatens to float away at any moment,
is held together exclusively by Paul Hogan's star appeal. Unfortunately, this wasn't enough to insure a box-office success.