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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: 30
Fresh: 12 | 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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Average Rating: 3.6/5
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Movie Info

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, 1 hr. 35 min.

Drama, Romance, Comedy

Peter Tolan, Leslie Dixon

Feb 7, 2006

$48.3M

Dreamworks

Cast

All Critics (160) | Top Critics (30) | Fresh (86) | Rotten (67) | DVD (15)

See two charming characters make beautiful music together.

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

September 24, 2005 Comment
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 | Comment
Ebert & Roeper
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Closer to hell, really.

September 16, 2005 Full Review Source: Toronto Star | Comment
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 | Comment
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Just when Just Like Heaven becomes too cloyingly cute to endure, it takes an unexpected turn. The humor shifts from the ha-ha variety to closer to black.

September 16, 2005 Full Review Source: San Francisco Chronicle | Comment
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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 | Comment
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 | Comment
ColeSmithey.com

Quirky romantic comedy with a dark-ish premise.

July 14, 2008 Full Review Source: Common Sense Media | Comment
Common Sense Media

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 | Comment
Princeton Town Topics

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: Upstage Magazine | Comment
Upstage Magazine

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 Comment

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 | Comment
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Audience Reviews for Just Like Heaven

Really cute film!

June 24, 2011
murphmann93
Bethany Murphy

Super Reviewer

This was a funny and sweet movie. Although the story is a bit weird but it was entertaining as well. Especially the priest part.

June 12, 2010
3niR
Dead Angel

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