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Actors: Reese Witherspoon, Mark Ruffalo
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about Just Like Heaven |
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Elizabeth Masterson (Reese Witherspoon) has an extremely successful Doctor's career. She always thought her life was fulfilled by her job until one night.
David Abbott (Mark Ruffalo) has no ambition, he wanders aimlessly through life. His life is empty and alone until he moves into a seemingly empty apartment.
David's life is suddenly made a whole lot more confusing but more purposeful when Elizabeth appears, Elizabeth may or may not be dead but only feels alive when she is with David in her apartment. While they clash at first, they soon form an unexplained bond while they find a way to reunite Lizzie with her newly found body before a rival doctor takes her body off life support.
They seek help from Darryl (Jon Heder, Napoleon Dynamite) a new age bookseller who has a gift of sensing the dead or in Elizabeth's case the spirit of the barely alive. Their lives combine unexpectedly and trouble and comedy ensue. While the movie follows David's attempts to help Lizzie it also shows the layers of David peeling off revealing a damaged man. A man that Lizzie in turn helps to regain life and in turn to love again.
A movie about living life, finding love and learning to trust.
--Yani, Resident Scholar
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David (Ruffalo)is dealing with the death of his wife so he moves into a fully furnished appartment. Unknown to him when he buys it, this appartment has the spirit of Elizabeth Masterson (Witherspoon) - a doctor who lives for her job. She keeps appearing and seems to think it is her house and he is trespassing. David tries to get rid of her by asking a series of professionals to 'cleanse' his house. They don't work and she still won't go away so David and Elizabeth decide to work together to find out why she hasn't moved on if she is dead. Elizabeth doesn't seem to remember anything but gradually as they go to certain places some things come back to her. They then find out that Elizabeth is lying in her own hospital in a coma from being in a car crash. Her sister is being talked into turning off the life support machine but Elizabeth doesn't want that to happen. She needs David to find a way to steal her body and give her more time to work out what is happening.
--Laura B, Resident Scholar
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Plot
Time/era of movie:
- present (2000-2010)
Romance/Love/Hugging
Yes
Kind of romance:
- romance (general)
Inner struggle or disability
Yes
Struggle with
- search for family/history
Fantasy/Magic?
Yes
Fantasy element:
- Ghost Buddy
Lover is...
- magical being
Coping with loss of loved one?
Yes
Coping with loss of
- Wife/girlfriend/squeeze
Main Character
Identity:
- Female
Profession/status:
- doctor
Age:
- 20's-30's
Hair color?
- blonde
Hair type
- (woman) medium/shoulderlgn straight
Body type
- (woman) skinny
- (woman) average
Events of movie makes character more...
- caring
- happy
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
How sensitive is this character?
- sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor?
- Strong but gentle sense of humor
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
- Very much smarter than other characters
Physique
- average physique
- physically sick
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Hair color
- brunette (Brown)
- brunette (Black)
Hair style
- (man) short/standard straight
- (man) short/standard wavey
Body type
- (man) average build
How much in movie?
- 80%
- 90%-100%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
Main Adversary
Identity:
- Male
- a fight for survival
Age:
- 20's-30's
Profession/status:
- doctor
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- 20%
- 40%
Hair color
- brunette (Brown)
Hair type
- (man) short/standard straight
Body type
- (man) skinny
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
How sensitive is this character?
- mean, arrogant
Sense of humor
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- healthy but a geeky weakling
Setting
United States
Yes
The US:
- California
City?
Yes
City:
- San Francisco
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- generic/vague references to death/punishment
- moderately detailed references to deaths
Movie makes you feel...
- very happy
- spiritual
Any profanity?
- None
- Occasional swearing
If soundtrack VERY NOTICEABLE...
- Modern rock/pop
Is this movie based on a
- book
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Resident Scholar Profiles
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 Yani
SCHOLARS: Laura B
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