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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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Rebecca Murray
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About.com

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10/04/02
Brian J. Arthurs
Brian J. Arthurs
Beach Reporter (Southern California)

No review available.

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04/08/05
Fr. Chris Carpenter
Fr. Chris Carpenter
Catholic Sun

Featherweight comedy that somehow, despite the overdone Oedipal stuff, manages to be enjoyable.

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08/19/03
Channel 4 Film

A lot of fun.

Full Review Source: Chicago Reader | comment Comment
02/27/08
Jonathan Rosenbaum
Jonathan Rosenbaum
Chicago Reader
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The movie itself is surprisingly affecting, perhaps because Shepherd never goes for easy laughs but plays her character seriously.

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01/01/00
Roger Ebert
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07/29/02
Matt Brunson
Matt Brunson
Creative Loafing

An amusing diversion.

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01/01/00
Chris Hicks
Chris Hicks
Deseret News, Salt Lake City

No review available.

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07/29/07
Neil Cohen
Neil Cohen
Echo Magazine

Cloying and syrupy stuff.

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07/26/02
Scott Weinberg
Scott Weinberg
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07/03/05
Emanuel Levy
Emanuel Levy
EmanuelLevy.Com

Dull romantic comedy

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08/10/04
Daniel Eagan
Daniel Eagan
Film Journal International

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07/26/02
David Poland
David Poland
Hot Button

"effervescent foolishness with crackling chemistry between Shepherd and Downey"

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07/29/02
James Sanford
James Sanford
Kalamazoo Gazette

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08/22/03
Carol Cling
Carol Cling
Las Vegas Review-Journal

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11/24/02
Nell Minow
Nell Minow
Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies

A lovely, not to mention very funny, romantic comedy

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03/04/04
Clint Morris
Clint Morris
Moviehole

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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05/20/03
Janet Maslin
Janet Maslin
New York Times
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Pleasant but unoriginal.

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Mark R. Leeper
Mark R. Leeper
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Chances Are is an entertaining romantic comedy.

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08/28/04
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
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