Just Like Heaven

    Just Like Heaven
    2005

    Synopsis

    Shortly after David Abbott moves into his new San Francisco digs, he has an unwelcome visitor on his hands: winsome Elizabeth Martinson, who asserts that the apartment is hers -- and promptly vanishes. When she starts appearing and disappearing at will, David thinks she's a ghost, while Elizabeth is convinced she's alive.

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    Cast

    • Reese WitherspoonDr. Elizabeth Masterson
    • Mark RuffaloDavid Abbott
    • Donal LogueJack Houriskey
    • Dina Spybey-WatersAbby Brody
    • Ben ShenkmanDr. Brett Rushton
    • Jon HederDarryl
    • Ivana MiličevićKatrina
    • Caroline AaronGrace
    • Rosalind ChaoFran
    • Ron CanadaDr. Walsh

    Recommendations

    • 70

      The Hollywood Reporter

      Crossing the life-death divide, Reese Witherspoon and Mark Ruffalo are a winning pair in this smart and tender comedy.
    • 67

      Entertainment Weekly

      That Just Like Heaven succeeds at all - at least for teenage girls with limited interest in the drafting of living wills - is due entirely to Witherspoon's can-do charisma.
    • 63

      Miami Herald

      The film, which comes way too close to preaching, lurches away from the control of director Mark Waters (Mean Girls, Freaky Friday) and ends on a stretched-out note so sappy it makes "Must Love Dogs" look like "8 Mile."
    • 60

      Variety

      As uneven as the topography of its San Francisco locales, but the amiable peaks mostly offset the flat stretches and valleys. A variation on a very old meet-cute theme with a touch of otherworldly romance.
    • 50

      The A.V. Club

      Part of the problem is Mark Ruffalo, whose tortured sensitivity in "You Can Count On Me" and "We Don't Live Here Anymore" made him seem like Marlon Brando's heir apparent, not Will Smith's.
    • 50

      Dallas Observer

      Unfortunately, the movie fails to fully make sense, which may be because it's based on a French novel (If Only It Were True by Marc Levy).
    • 40

      L.A. Weekly

      The usually zippy and subversive director Mark Waters (Freaky Friday, Mean Girls) plays things straight and suffocatingly sentimental - which actually makes the whole movie seem that much creepier.
    • 38

      ReelViews

      The movie starts cheating the audience early, and never lets up.

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