If you loved *batteries not included, try Date with an Angel

A bridge between a film you've already seen and one most people haven't. Date with an Angel has roughly 7.2× fewer votes than *batteries not included — it's a deeper cut, not a mainstream recommendation. Here's what they share, and what the second one does that the first one doesn't.

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*batteries not included

1987 · dir. Matthew Robbins

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Date with an Angel

1987 · dir. Tom McLoughlin

What they share

Theysit in Comedy / Fantasy / Science Fiction territory. If that's the register that drew you to *batteries not included, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.

What Date with an Angel is

Here's a film that knows exactly what it is. Jim discovers an angel in his swimming pool the morning after his bachelor party, which complicates his engagement to Patty. What follows is a series of predictable but harmless complications.

If you loved *batteries not included, try Date with an Angel

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Date with an Angel

What they share

What Date with an Angel is

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