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Heaven Can Wait
Heaven Can Wait
Stars: Warren Beatty, Julie Christie, James Mason, Charles Grodin, Dyan Cannon, Buck Henry, Jack Warden, R.G. Armstrong, Hamilton Camp, Stephanie Faracy, Vincent Gardenia, Joseph Maher, Dolph Sweet, Larry Block, Frank Campanella, Dick Enberg, Arthur Malet, Bill SorrellsDirector: Warren Beatty
Summary: A romantic fantasy about an American footballer who is accidentally summoned to Heaven ahead of schedule. He then returns to Earth in another man's body. Academy Award nominee.
When L.A. Rams quarterback Joe Pendleton (Warren Beatty) is plucked from Earth too soon by an overzealous angel, he is sent back to Earth in another, older body. He struggles to regain his old spot in the line-up while straightening out his host's tangled affairs. Based not on the 1943 movie of the same name, but on 1941's HERE COMES MR. JORDAN. The comedy (co-directed by Beatty and Buck Henry) was nominated for nine Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Actor: Warren Beatty, Best Director: Beatty/Henry, Best Adapted Screenplay: Elaine May/Warren Beatty.
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The whimsical comedy-romance Heaven Can Waitis a delightful example of the small sub-genre of afterlife comedies. The film, which teams then lovers Warren Beatty and Julie Christie for a third time following McCabe and Mrs Miller(1971) and Shampoo(1975), is not a remake of the 1943 supernatural film of the same name, but of the Robert Montgomery classic Here Comes Mr Jordan(1941). Here Beatty is American football player Joe Pendleton, who accidentally dies, decades too early, and is incarnated in a new body which, until recently, was occupied by a ruthless multi-millionaire. James Mason is superb as a most authoritative angel (Mr Jordan), heading a fine cast including Charles Grodin, Buck Henry and Jack Warden.
In a sub-plot paralleling The Shop Around the Corner(1940) and revisited in You've Got Mail(1998), Julie Christie plays an English woman outraged that one of the former millionaire's companies is destroying her village, while simultaneously falling in love with the man now occupying the hated millionaire's mortal coil. Much comic and romantic misunderstanding follows, as well as some appealing slapstick, courtesy of Dyan Cannon. Aided by a lovely musical score by Dave Grusin, this is a beautifully played and thoroughly charming bittersweet fantasy about the transcendent power of love. It is a joy for romantics everywhere.
On the DVD:Heaven Can Waitcomes to DVD in a good 1.77:1 ratio transfer which exhibits just a little grain in some darker scenes. The print shows some very minor, occasional damage, but nothing to complain about in a film of this vintage. The sound is the original mono mix, which is perfectly serviceable. The only extra is the theatrical trailer. --Gary S Dalkin
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