I found this to be a pretty silly movie. In a way I do not really detest romantic comedies, though I do find the silly Hollywood romantic ideals in these movie to be somewhat sickening. Chances Are is no different with everything working out in the end with all of the main characters happy in the end.
The plot of this movie is based around a man, Louis Jefferies (Robert Downey Jnr) dying in a road accident and leaving his wife a widow. He gets to heaven, not really knowing where he is, and says that he must get back, so he is given another chance to live. He is given a lot of really nice positions but wants to get back to Washington. He comes back, but isn't treated so he forgets who he was. Twenty three years later he has graduated from Yale and meets a young lady in the library, he helps her out and she thanks him. He them moves to Washington and attempts to get a job at the Washington Post. Though he is refused a job, he meets a nice man, Philip Train (Ryan O'Neal) who invites him around to his friend's house. Through a peculiar twist of fate it lands up to be his ex-wife's house and her daughter is the girl he met at the library. Hollywood really knows how to stretch believability.
The movie is supposed to be a confusing mixture of people chasing after each other and others running between bedrooms, but it really is not. Much of the comedy comes out of Louis Jefferies, who is now Alix Finch, realising that he was really Corinne Jefferies (Cybil Shepherd) husband, and then trying to convince her of that. It lands up with a clichéd Finch revealing all of his treasured secrets that only Jefferies would have known.
Corinne is a lovely character. Okay, she is jumps into bed with Train the minute they fall in love, but her devotion to her dead husband is beautifully admirable. She is so tied up with her dead husband that she spends a lot of time at the psychiatrist to try and get over her obsession.
This movie is also quite predictable: I know what Hollywood is like. I knew Finch could not get back together with Corinne, leaving both Train, and Miranda Jefferies (Mary Stuart Masterson) out in the cold. I know that they all must be satisfied at the end of the movie, the only question was how that was to happen.
This movie is based around the theme that Louis Jefferies is back from the dead and everything must work out. There are obstacles that the characters must overcome, but this movie is a fantasy and thus reality needs to be twisted a little. Even though what happened in heaven is false, not only is it a place where good people go, but people can have a second chance at life if they want. Earth is portrayed as a playground for the rich and the poor are really just animals that get in the way.
The plot of this movie is based around a man, Louis Jefferies (Robert Downey Jnr) dying in a road accident and leaving his wife a widow. He gets to heaven, not really knowing where he is, and says that he must get back, so he is given another chance to live. He is given a lot of really nice positions but wants to get back to Washington. He comes back, but isn't treated so he forgets who he was. Twenty three years later he has graduated from Yale and meets a young lady in the library, he helps her out and she thanks him. He them moves to Washington and attempts to get a job at the Washington Post. Though he is refused a job, he meets a nice man, Philip Train (Ryan O'Neal) who invites him around to his friend's house. Through a peculiar twist of fate it lands up to be his ex-wife's house and her daughter is the girl he met at the library. Hollywood really knows how to stretch believability.
The movie is supposed to be a confusing mixture of people chasing after each other and others running between bedrooms, but it really is not. Much of the comedy comes out of Louis Jefferies, who is now Alix Finch, realising that he was really Corinne Jefferies (Cybil Shepherd) husband, and then trying to convince her of that. It lands up with a clichéd Finch revealing all of his treasured secrets that only Jefferies would have known.
Corinne is a lovely character. Okay, she is jumps into bed with Train the minute they fall in love, but her devotion to her dead husband is beautifully admirable. She is so tied up with her dead husband that she spends a lot of time at the psychiatrist to try and get over her obsession.
This movie is also quite predictable: I know what Hollywood is like. I knew Finch could not get back together with Corinne, leaving both Train, and Miranda Jefferies (Mary Stuart Masterson) out in the cold. I know that they all must be satisfied at the end of the movie, the only question was how that was to happen.
This movie is based around the theme that Louis Jefferies is back from the dead and everything must work out. There are obstacles that the characters must overcome, but this movie is a fantasy and thus reality needs to be twisted a little. Even though what happened in heaven is false, not only is it a place where good people go, but people can have a second chance at life if they want. Earth is portrayed as a playground for the rich and the poor are really just animals that get in the way.