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Nicolas Cage and Meg Ryan in City of Angels (1998)

Dennis Franz: Nathaniel Messinger

City of Angels

Dennis Franz credited as playing...

Nathaniel Messinger

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  • Nathaniel Messinger: [to Seth] I can't see you, but I know you're there.
  • Nathaniel Messinger: [telepathically to Seth while eating pancakes] ... and you're reading my mind right now.
  • Seth: Stop that!
  • Nathaniel Messinger: Seth knows no fear, no pain, no hunger, he hears music in the sunrise. But he'd give it all up, he loves you that much.
  • Maggie Rice: I don't understand.
  • Nathaniel Messinger: He can fall, he can give up his existence as he knows it, he can give up eternity and become... one of us.
  • Nathaniel Messinger: Listen, kid: he gave these bozos the greatest gift in the universe - you think he didn't give it to us, too?
  • Seth: Which gift?
  • Nathaniel Messinger: Free will, brother. Free will.

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