Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
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 |
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
Heart and Souls would have to be the most heart-warming, funny, tear-jerking, feel-good movie of all time. I can't understand why no-one I know has heard of it till I rave about it and insist they watch it. After several viewings I feel that Julia, Harrison, Penny and Milo are people I know and care about, and as for Robert Downey Jr, every time I watch it I pray that he straightens out his own life, such a waste of talent to be in and out of jail. Heart and Souls ranks up there, for me, with Baghdad Cafe, Five Easy Pieces and Wings of Desire.