A businessman is reunited with the four lost souls who were his guardian angels during childhood, all with a particular purpose to joining the afterlife.
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Title: Heart and Souls (1993)
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| Robert Downey Jr. | ... | Thomas Reilly | |
| Charles Grodin | ... | Harrison Winslow | |
| Alfre Woodard | ... | Penny Washington | |
| Kyra Sedgwick | ... | Julia | |
| Tom Sizemore | ... | Milo Peck | |
| David Paymer | ... | Hal the Bus Driver | |
| Elisabeth Shue | ... | Anne | |
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Bill Calvert | ... | Frank Reilly |
| Lisa Lucas | ... | Eva Reilly | |
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Shannon Orrock | ... | Woman at Audition |
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Michael Zebulon | ... | Singer at Audition |
| Chasiti Hampton | ... | Shirley Washington - Age 7 | |
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Wanya Green | ... | Diane Washington - Age 8 |
| Janet MacLachlan | ... | Agnes Miller | |
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Javar David Levingston | ... | Billy Washington - Age 4 |
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In 1959, in San Francisco, the telephone operator Penny Washington leaves her three children to work in her night shift. The shy singer Harrison Winslow is afraid of the stage and quits his audition. The waitress Julia is proposed by her boyfriend and she does not accept; then she regrets and leaves her job to seek him out. The smalltime thief Milo Peck tries to retrieve a collection of stamps that he had stolen from a boy. They embark in a bus and the driver Hal distracts while driving and has a serious accident, and driver and passengers die. Meanwhile, Frank Reilly is driving his pregnant wife Eva Reilly to the hospital. Frank successfully escapes from the bus but Eva is nervous and delivers her baby in the car. The souls of the four passengers become the guardian angels and the invisible friends of the boy Thomas Reilly. Seven years later, Penny, Julia, Harrison and Milo conclude that they are harming the boy and they decide to become invisible also to him. Thirty and something ... Written by Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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The story of four souls who needed a body and one guy who needed some soul. See more »Parents Guide:
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EnglishRelease Date:
13 August 1993 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
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Budget:
$25,000,000 (estimated)Gross USA:
$16,581,714Company Credits
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Milo Peck: Hey, life's tough. Sometimes you don't get what you want. Mostly you don't get what you want.
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Written by Jay Livingston and Ray Evans
Performed by Doris Day
Courtesy of Columbia Records
By Arrangement with Sony Music Licensing
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Second of two ghost movies that Alfre Woodard appeared in within five years. The first being Scrooged (1988). See more »Goofs
It is established that the four souls stop appearing to Thomas when he is seven, which would be in 1966 or 67. However, there is a poster drawing on his bedroom wall of John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr. Those posters did not start to appear until after King and Robert Kennedy had both been assassinated in 1968. See more »Quotes
[to a child he robbed]Milo Peck: Hey, life's tough. Sometimes you don't get what you want. Mostly you don't get what you want.
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Whatever Will Be, Will Be (Que Sera Sera)Written by Jay Livingston and Ray Evans
Performed by Doris Day
Courtesy of Columbia Records
By Arrangement with Sony Music Licensing
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Robert Downey Jr. is wonderful as the man who became the medium for 4 people who died in a bus accident at the same moment the hero was born. As a child these "friends" were known only to him, eventually leading to psychiatric evaluations because parents, teachers et al insisted something had to be wrong with this child. While still a small child, the "spirits" decide it's time for him to be "without his special fiends"...until at about age 30 they suddenly make contact again. They need a favor; 4 favors. Each one of the foursome died before they could take care of some important unfinished business. In order to go to Heaven and rest in peace, their "little friend" would need to allow each of them to enter his body (since they are only souls) to accomplish their missions.
The 4 scenarios are beautiful expressions of love and kindness, and although disrupting the young man's (love) life immensely, in the end he too is richer from the turbulence's. -- This is a wonderful fantasy, a big winner with romantic movie lovers. I have watched this film several times and will enjoy it again and again. The widescreen DVD version is particularly enjoyable. This is a sparkling gem of a movie!