Just Like Heaven (Full Screen Edition) - Region 1 DVD

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I saw this in the theaters when it came out, and I was deceived, since I had been told it was a direct adaptation from Marc Lévy's novel "If Only It Were True." Definitely NOT an adaptation, but rather, the movie is anything but loosely based on the novel in the question, since many characters in the book differed from the movie (the mother is in the book, there is no sister; her dog, not her... read more

Description: Elizabeth is a workaholic doctor who is way too busy for a life. One night she gets into a car accident & becomes stuck between heaven & earth. David is a lonely architect who rents her old apartment & thinks hes crazy when he starts seeing her spirit. He tries to get rid of her but she just wont go away. Studio: Paramount Home Video Release Date: 08/21/2007 Starring: Reese Witherspoon Mark Ruffalo Run time: 95 minutes Rating: Pg13 Bad romantic comedies make you scoff at their absurdity; good ones make you wish your life was that absurd. Just Like Heaven is just smart and likable enough to trigger that wishing Elizabeth is a workaholic doctor who is way too busy for a life. One night she gets into a car accident & becomes stuck between heaven & earth. David is a lonely architect who rents her old apartment & thinks hes crazy when he starts seeing her spirit. He tries to get rid of her but she just wont go away. Studio: Paramount Home Video Release Date: 08/21/2007 Starring: Reese Witherspoon Mark Ruffalo Run time: 95 minutes Rating: Pg13


Bad romantic comedies make you scoff at their absurdity; good ones make you wish your life was that absurd. Just Like Heaven is just smart and likable enough to trigger that wishing. David (Mark Ruffalo, Collateral, You Can Count On Me) finds an amazing apartment in San Francisco--only to discover it's haunted by the spirit of the previous tenant, an overachieving doctor named Elizabeth (Reese Witherspoon, Legally Blonde, Election). There's something not quite right about Elizabeth's afterlife; against his better judgement, David agrees to help her investigate her life...but finds himself digging into his own as well. The plot takes a twist that some viewers will see coming, but Just Like Heaven doesn't rely on the surprise alone; the revelation takes the story in a new and just as entertaining direction. Witherspoon and Ruffalo are two of the best romantic leads around, but the surprise is how well their contrasting flavors (perky and moody, respectively) mesh, creating a sparky, engaging chemistry. Also featuring Dina Waters (Freaky Friday), Donal Logue (The Tao of Steve), Ben Shenkman (Angels in America), and Jon Heder (Napoleon Dynamite). Crisply directed by Mark Waters (Mean Girls), who carefully keeps the supernatural from getting silly and the romance from getting gooey. --Bret Fetzer

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