Eyes of an Angel (1991)

Director
Robert Harmon

Main cast
John Travolta; Ellie Raab; Tito Larriva; Richard Edson; Vincent Guastaferro

Genres
Drama

Description
John Travolta is a downtrodden single father raising his daughter under difficult circumstances in Chicago. The young girl comes upon and then nurses a wounded Doberman used for fighting, back to health. Duped by underworld types he was working as a courier for, father and daughter leave the dog and flee cross-country to Los Angeles with both canine and mobsters in pursuit.


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