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Just Like Heaven (2005)

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Average Rating: 5.7/10
Reviews Counted: 149
Fresh: 83 | Rotten: 66

Delightfully sweet like a lollipop, Just Like Heaven is a dreamy romantic comedy that may give you a toothache when it attempts to broach difficult end of life issues by throwing a cherry on top.

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Average Rating: 5.2/10
Critic Reviews: 32
Fresh: 14 | Rotten: 18

Delightfully sweet like a lollipop, Just Like Heaven is a dreamy romantic comedy that may give you a toothache when it attempts to broach difficult end of life issues by throwing a cherry on top.

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A couple who live on different sides of the divide of life and death discover just how many boundaries love can cross in this romantic comic fantasy. Elizabeth (Reese Witherspoon) is a hardworking and dedicated medical resident who, after 20 hours on duty, is heading home when she falls asleep at the wheel of her car and is involved in a fatal auto accident. Several weeks later, a man named David (Mark Ruffalo) takes over the lease on Elizabeth's apartment, but he discovers that she hasn't quite

PG-13,

Drama, Romance, Comedy

Peter Tolan, Leslie Dixon

Feb 7, 2006

$48.3M

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All Critics (160) | Top Critics (35) | Fresh (83) | Rotten (66) | DVD (15)

See two charming characters make beautiful music together.

September 28, 2005 Full Review Source: New York Observer
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Starts out glib and gimmicky but later digs surprisingly deep.

September 24, 2005
New York Post
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It's corny, it's somewhat predictable, but it's also very sweet, it's funny.

September 19, 2005 Full Review Source: Ebert & Roeper
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Closer to hell, really.

September 16, 2005 Full Review Source: Toronto Star
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Just Like Heaven is really nothing more than your standard love-from-beyond-the-grave squishfest (even though the heroine isn't actually dead) done up in the dumb bonnet-and-bloomers get-up of contemporary romantic comedy.

September 16, 2005 Full Review Source: Salon.com
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Director Mark Waters knows how to turn the gimmicky unknown into psychologically comic adventure, just as he did in 2003's Freaky Friday.

September 16, 2005 Full Review Source: Seattle Times
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Just Like Heaven is a typical romantic comedy that stumbles on the problems of being not particularly funny or interesting. It could have been truly heartwarming, but is so heavy handed here that the final result is merely sentimental pap.

March 29, 2011 Full Review Source: ComingSoon.net
ComingSoon.net

Just Like Heaven" perpetuates the Frisco curse that not one great movie has been made in the hilly city since Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo in 1958.

June 15, 2009 Full Review Source: ColeSmithey.com
ColeSmithey.com

Kudos to Witherspoon and Ruffalo for generating enough screen chemistry to insure a teary-eyed finale that'll make you forget the fact that you're watching a shameless rip-off.

May 28, 2007 Full Review Source: Princeton Town Topics
Princeton Town Topics

One of the best times I've had at the movies in a while. It's not perfect. It's not very deep. But it's a whole lot of fun and even a little moving.

September 25, 2006
Christianity Today

While the picture adheres to romantic-comedy formula, it's not entirely formulaic, and the actors, who appear to be having fun, give it a bright and undeniable appeal.

February 7, 2006 Full Review Source: MTV

Um filminho simpático protagonizado por dois atores carismáticos. E, ainda assim, não é um bom sinal que eu esteja utilizando a palavra 'filminho' para descrevê-lo.

December 22, 2005
Cinema em Cena

Like a romantic comedy Chinese dinner. You watch it, and an hour later you are hungry again for a romantic comedy.

December 22, 2005 Full Review Source: Laramie Movie Scope
Laramie Movie Scope

There's also strong support from Donal Logue (as David's best friend Jack) and Jon Heder, who proves there's life after Napoleon Dynamite with an amusing comic turn as a supernatural bookseller who agrees to help David.

December 22, 2005 Full Review Source: ViewLondon
ViewLondon

There are parts of the film that engage and others that are just plain silly. Pity. With a better script, Just Like Heaven just might have been a winner.

December 16, 2005 Full Review Source: Urban Cinefile
Urban Cinefile

The quintessential lightweight date movie.

December 15, 2005

... it is refreshing to see a love story played out with sincerity.

December 13, 2005 Full Review Source: BBC

With apologies to The Cure... 'Show me show me show me/ How you make a flick/ That has a hackneyed theme,' she said.

December 6, 2005 Full Review Source: Film Threat
Film Threat

...it balances humor and poignancy in a way that's far from comatose.

November 9, 2005 Full Review
Denton Record Chronicle (TX)

This trifling love story is thoroughly ridiculous but still surprisingly enjoyable

October 30, 2005 Full Review Source: Shadows on the Wall
Shadows on the Wall

Witherspoon and Ruffalo have some real sparks. Satisfying and sweet

October 30, 2005 Full Review Source: Moviehole
Moviehole

When my body and spirit decide to go their separate ways, I want to be perky and beautiful like Reese Witherspoon in Just Like Heaven.

October 17, 2005

A spirited diversion that showcases the talents of Witherspoon and Ruffalo, who should team up again soon.

October 15, 2005 Full Review Source: Jam! Movies
Jam! Movies

It took me about 45 minutes into "Just Like Heaven" to figure out just exactly what it is: A contemporary retelling of "Sleeping Beauty."

October 7, 2005 Full Review
KWQC-TV (Iowa)

Another cinematic press release targeting audiences with a positive spin on the ugly subjects of death, loss and severe illness.

October 6, 2005 Full Review Source: Film Journal International
Film Journal International

Director Mark S. Waters again transcends the expectations of his subject matter to make a sweet surprise of a film that demands rewatching.

October 2, 2005 Full Review Source: Cinerina

Audience Reviews for Just Like Heaven

It is fun watching a ghost who doesn't know they are a ghost. At one point, Reese was arguing that she was completely normal while her ghostly image is being split in half by the dining room table.
August 16, 2012
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Witherspoons chin could probably kick my chins ass
June 18, 2009
LoughnerWasLucid

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    1. Elizabeth: I'm a doctor...
    2. David: I'm a doctor!
    – Submitted by Rawballs B (15 months ago)
    1. Darryl: Righteous.
    – Submitted by Rocío R (19 months ago)

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