A lot of fun.
Chances Are (1989)
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Reviews Counted:25
Fresh:15
Rotten:10
Average Rating:5.6/10
Runtime: 1 hr 48 mins
Genre: Comedies
Synopsis: A young woman loses her husband when she is pregnant with her first and only daughter; 22 years later, she still has not recovered from his death, and has never remarried, even though a close... A young woman loses her husband when she is pregnant with her first and only daughter; 22 years later, she still has not recovered from his death, and has never remarried, even though a close family friend has secretly been in love with her for years. Meanwhile, up in heaven, a young man has been given the soul of the woman's dead husband, and is reincarnated without receiving an injection of the "forgetting" serum that would have made him unaware of his old life. He ends up at Yale University where he starts dating the woman's now college-aged daughter (though he doesn't realize the connection yet). When the daughter takes her new beau home for a vacation, his memories come flooding back, causing complications as everyone tries to figure out her rightful relationship with this "young" man. [More]
Starring: Cybill Shepherd, Robert Downey, Mary Stuart Masterson, Ryan O'Neal
Starring: Cybill Shepherd, Robert Downey, Mary Stuart Masterson, Ryan O'Neal, Josef Sommer
Director: Emile Ardolino
Director: Emile Ardolino
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Reviews for Chances Are
Among the best of the body-switch films that cluttered movie screens in the late 1980s.
This went direct to video in Britain, but as latter-day Hollywood romantic comedies go, it has a bit more style than you might expect.
Featherweight comedy that somehow, despite the overdone Oedipal stuff, manages to be enjoyable.
Emile Ardolino, who directed Dirty Dancing, leaves the film hovering halfway between dewy romance and bedroom farce, but he displays little of the sharpness or comic timing needed for either one.
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