Angel Eyes is a 2001 American romantic drama film directed by Luis Mandoki and starring Jennifer Lopez, Jim Caviezel, Terrence Howard, and Jeremy Sisto.

Written by Gerald Di Pego, the film is about a mysterious man who finds himself drawn to a female police officer with whom he forms a relationship that helps each to deal with trauma from their past.

One year later, Sharon is frustrated with the men she dates and has become estranged from her family for having her father arrested after he beat her mother, Josephine.

She notices a car pull up and open fire on the diner with a machine gun, Sharon and her partner chase after the suspects.

Wanting to help Catch heal from his emotional wounds, she tries to talk to him about the accident and takes him to the cemetery to see the graves of his family, but he gets upset and walks away.

At her parents' wedding vow renewal ceremony, Sharon tries talking to her father, but he tells her that he feels like he doesn't have a daughter.

As Sharon starts to leave, she stops and tells the videographer a wonderful story about her father playing with her and her brother when they were children.

Meanwhile, Catch finally goes to the cemetery and talks to his deceased family, explaining how he remembers the wonderful moments they shared.

The scenes in and around Sharon's parents home were filmed at the Playter Farmhouse, an historic building near Danforth Avenue in Toronto.

"[6] In his review in the Chicago Sun-Times, Roger Ebert gave the film three of four stars and applauding the performance of Jennifer Lopez, whom he describes as "the real thing, one of those rare actresses who can win our instinctive sympathy.

"[7] Ebert concludes: Angel Eyes is a complex, evasive romance involving two people who both want to be inaccessible.

Meanwhile, secrets about both their family situations emerge; credit the screenwriter, Gerald DiPego, for not resolving the standoff with the father with an easy payoff.

[7]In his review in the San Francisco Chronicle, Mick LaSalle called the film "a rare thing—a well-acted character study of a hardworking woman, by a screenwriter (Gerald DiPego) and a director with enough integrity to dispense with the usual Hollywood distractions.

Whatever the reasons, Lopez, who was always competent onscreen, is now an actress who can do things other movie stars can't do.

[8]In his review in The New York Times, Stephen Holden focused his critique on the casting, writing, "Watching these two share some awkward smooches that are supposed to transport them over the moon is a little like imagining Jane Russell and Montgomery Clift in a steamy clinch.