Reviews for Just Like Heaven
Review - Just Like Heaven
Why I saw it: Because it looked like something Sally would like.
Brief Synopsis: David is a landscape architect is suffering from the death of his wife and has taken to drink. Somehow he still manages to rent a huge apartment on a hill top in San Francisco with a great view of the bay. Elizabeth is a doctor who works lengthy shifts and has no time for a social life. One night she’s driving to a blind date when she gets hit by a truck.
Elizabeth shows up in David’s apartment, which used to be hers. He soon figures out that she’s just a spirt, and that nobody else can see her. She refuses to think she’s dead, but she can’t remember who she is or what happened to her. To get rid of her, David agrees to help. They track down her body — in the hospital with a coma — just in time to hear Elizabeth’s sister agree to pull the plug. David has fallen in love with her by this time and decides to steal the body. He’s caught on the way out of the hospital. Elizabeth’s tubes get unconnected in the scuffle. David kisses her. She comes out of the coma. At first she doesn’t recognize him, but she soon does because the end of the movie is fast approaching.
What I liked about it: I watched it with my wife.
What I didn’t like about it: It was predictable, cheesy, rather dull.
Bottom line: I gave it a charitable 6. Sally didn’t fall asleep.
Other comments: Jon Heder, who played Napoleon Dynamite, plays pretty much the same character as the owner of an occult bookstore.
Brief Synopsis: David is a landscape architect is suffering from the death of his wife and has taken to drink. Somehow he still manages to rent a huge apartment on a hill top in San Francisco with a great view of the bay. Elizabeth is a doctor who works lengthy shifts and has no time for a social life. One night she’s driving to a blind date when she gets hit by a truck.
Elizabeth shows up in David’s apartment, which used to be hers. He soon figures out that she’s just a spirt, and that nobody else can see her. She refuses to think she’s dead, but she can’t remember who she is or what happened to her. To get rid of her, David agrees to help. They track down her body — in the hospital with a coma — just in time to hear Elizabeth’s sister agree to pull the plug. David has fallen in love with her by this time and decides to steal the body. He’s caught on the way out of the hospital. Elizabeth’s tubes get unconnected in the scuffle. David kisses her. She comes out of the coma. At first she doesn’t recognize him, but she soon does because the end of the movie is fast approaching.
What I liked about it: I watched it with my wife.
What I didn’t like about it: It was predictable, cheesy, rather dull.
Bottom line: I gave it a charitable 6. Sally didn’t fall asleep.
Other comments: Jon Heder, who played Napoleon Dynamite, plays pretty much the same character as the owner of an occult bookstore.
Reviewed by Roger on 2008-08-06 14:29:33