Just Like Heaven

Just Like Heaven (2005)

  • 56% of critics liked it
    (149 reviews)

  • 77% of users liked it
    (514,930 ratings)

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… More

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PG-13,
Directed By
Written By
Peter Tolan, Leslie Dixon
Genres
Drama, Romance, Comedy
In Theaters
Sep 16, 2005 Wide
Dreamworks

Critic Reviews

  • Andrew Sarris, New York Observer

    See two charming characters make beautiful music together.

  • Kyle Smith, New York Post

    Starts out glib and gimmicky but later digs surprisingly deep.

  • Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper

    It's corny, it's somewhat predictable, but it's also very sweet, it's funny.

  • Geoff Pevere, Toronto Star

    Closer to hell, really.

  • Stephanie Zacharek, Salon.com

    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.

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Featured Audience Ratings

  • Red L


    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.

  • Coxxie M


    Witherspoons chin could probably kick my chins ass

  • Bethany M


    Really cute film!

  • Dead A


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

  • Jennifer X


    I still cry every time I watch this. I do think this movie is my guilty pleasure, if such a thing exists.

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