Heaven Can Wait (1978)
86 %
Reviews Counted: 29 Fresh: 25 Rotten:4 Average Rating: 7.1/10
Runtime: 1 hr 41 mins
Synopsis: When L.A. Rams quarterback Joe Pendleton (Beatty) is plucked from Earth too soon by an overzealous angel, he is sent back to Earth in another, older body. He struggles to regain his old spot in the line-up while straightening out his host's tangled affairs. Based not on the 1943 movie of the same... [More]
Genre: Comedies
Starring: Warren Beatty, Julie Christie, James Mason, Jack Warden, Dyan Cannon
Director: Warren Beatty, Buck Henry
Screenwriter: Elaine May, Warren Beatty
Story: Harry Segall
Composer: Dave Grusin
Producer: Warren Beatty, Howard W. "Hawk" Koch, Charles McGuire
Screenwriter: Elaine May, Warren Beatty
Story: Harry Segall
Composer: Dave Grusin
Producer: Warren Beatty, Howard W. "Hawk" Koch, Charles McGuire
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There are a few laughs from Grodin and Cannon, but Beatty and Christie are like 400-pound gorillas chasing a milkweed seed.
03/21/07
It's certainly likable enough and was a big hit when it came out, but one could hardly call it an auspicious artistic debut -- a crafty commercial entertainment with a certain amount of intelligence is more like it.
03/21/07
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This is the kind of upbeat screwball comedy Hollywood used to do smoothly and well.
10/23/04
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Heaven Can Wait shines in almost every department: it in one of those rare movies that deserves to be seen again and again.
01/24/04
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