david-sarkies I found this to be a pretty silly movie. In a way I do not really detest romantic comedies, though I do find the silly Hollywood romantic ideals in these movie to be somewhat sickening. Chances Are is no different with everything working out in the end with all of the main characters happy in the end.The plot of this movie is based around a man, Louis Jefferies (Robert Downey Jnr) dying in a road accident and leaving his wife a widow. He gets to heaven, not really knowing where he is, and says that he must get back, so he is given another chance to live. He is given a lot of really nice positions but wants to get back to Washington. He comes back, but isn't treated so he forgets who he was. Twenty three years later he has graduated from Yale and meets a young lady in the library, he helps her out and she thanks him. He them moves to Washington and attempts to get a job at the Washington Post. Though he is refused a job, he meets a nice man, Philip Train (Ryan O'Neal) who invites him around to his friend's house. Through a peculiar twist of fate it lands up to be his ex-wife's house and her daughter is the girl he met at the library. Hollywood really knows how to stretch believability.The movie is supposed to be a confusing mixture of people chasing after each other and others running between bedrooms, but it really is not. Much of the comedy comes out of Louis Jefferies, who is now Alix Finch, realising that he was really Corinne Jefferies (Cybil Shepherd) husband, and then trying to convince her of that. It lands up with a clichéd Finch revealing all of his treasured secrets that only Jefferies would have known.Corinne is a lovely character. Okay, she is jumps into bed with Train the minute they fall in love, but her devotion to her dead husband is beautifully admirable. She is so tied up with her dead husband that she spends a lot of time at the psychiatrist to try and get over her obsession.This movie is also quite predictable: I know what Hollywood is like. I knew Finch could not get back together with Corinne, leaving both Train, and Miranda Jefferies (Mary Stuart Masterson) out in the cold. I know that they all must be satisfied at the end of the movie, the only question was how that was to happen.This movie is based around the theme that Louis Jefferies is back from the dead and everything must work out. There are obstacles that the characters must overcome, but this movie is a fantasy and thus reality needs to be twisted a little. Even though what happened in heaven is false, not only is it a place where good people go, but people can have a second chance at life if they want. Earth is portrayed as a playground for the rich and the poor are really just animals that get in the way.

snowdancing First I liked that movie. It seemed to me a nice comedy with some silly moments. The costume designer Albert Wolsky did his best!!! The same as wonderful set decorator Robert R. Benton - this man really had a very good taste!!! But the script writers disappointed me extremely. The best ending would be the scene on the ladder, but instead of it, they decided that the father and his daughter should be together. Don't like the ending. The father becomes boyfriend of his own daughter and his ex-wife knows about it and finds it alright. It would be OK, if the scriptwriters would for example say that now there is a different soul in the body, but they did not, they only deprived him of memories. The actors were good, they were really funny. Cybill Shepherd was charming, Robert Downey Jr. was very funny in the dancing scene : )))... But some of the moments spoil even the impression of good acting. For example, Corinne Jeffries, played by Cybill Shepherd after the death of her husband was waiting for him 23 years (it's a long time!), she was true to him, she loved nobody but him, and when she met him and was just about making love to him, after a scene with her friend Philip Train (Ryan O'Neal), she very easily betrayed the man she was longing for so many years!!! It would be a good movie, if not the ending and some missed human psychology.

blackberrybabe Another Downey must-see! If you are an obsessed fan like me, you have got to see this movie! He plays Alex Finch, a 22 year old Yale grad who realizes that the life he just came into is the life he left 26 years earlier. Alex is the re-incarnation of Louie Jeffries, a no-nonsense lawyer happily married to Corrine (Cybil Sheppard). Louie is killed on their one-year anniversary when he is hit by a car. He demands to go back, only this time in the body of Alex Finch. Enter Robert Downey Jr., a lot of confusion, and a lot of laughs.Although this movie is 15-years old, it still makes you wonder if there really is such a thing as re-incarnation. And if so, how often to you meet the same souls life after life. I don't know the answer. But I do know that you need to see this movie. It is a riot, and Downey looks SO GOOD in a tuxedo. This film makes you believe in love, and true love never dies. It just gets recycled.

cableaddict Not a film to be taken seriously, but a great little film nonetheless.It's definitely NOT just a piece of fluff. The acting, IMO, is excellent.One of those films you wouldn't go out of your way to see, but it brings a smile every time it comes around on cable. Like an old friend.Definitely worth seeing if you get the chance. - - - - - - -