Movie: Just Like Heaven

	Distributor:	DreamWorks SKG
	Release:	September 16, 2005
	Genre:	Comedy, Romance, Science Fiction/Fantasy and Adaptation
	MPAA Rating:	PG-13 for some sexual content.

About a decade ago, one would find Reese Witherspoon and Mark Ruffalo playing supporting roles in movies. These days they have moved on to lead roles and have teamed up in this romantic comedy.

Reese is as usual, the perfect person to play the ambitious, overworked female - and she believes that playing such roles help in erasing the stereotype of the dumb blonde. In this movie, she plays Elizabeth, a resident doctor who makes a habit out of rendering more hours of work than is required of her. After one of those busy days, she fails to focus on where she is driving and gets in an accident.

The apartment she used to live in is now rented by David, a landscaper and widower whose loss is still fresh and has taken to being a recluse. Elizabeth is angry to find a strange man in her apartment, David thinks being alone has made him crazy enough to be talking with a person no one else can see or hear. Elizabeth eventually realizes she is not corporeal and that she has forgotten who she is, and asks David to help her find out her history and what happened. A man dealing with an invisible companion will bring out laughs in any movie. The most hilarious scene here is when the two are in a restaurant and someone needed to have an emergency procedure performed on him ... David tries to tell others what is wrong with the man but keeps getting the word Elizabeth is using wrong, then he ends up doing the procedure himself under Elizabeth's direction in order to save the man's life.

This incident makes Elizabeth remember she was a doctor. They track down her body and find it lying in coma in the same hospital where she used to work. They got there just in time because the hospital is recommending to Elizabeth's sister that life support be turned off. This would mean death, and probably Elizabeth's spirit disappearing to wherever the dead go to. Elizabeth must find a way to return to her body before its life support is taken away. David and Elizabeth realize how fond they are of each other when faced with the idea of parting from each other. By a stroke of luck, David figures out how Elizabeth can return to her body.

Sadly, once Elizabeth wakes up from her long coma, she forgets everything that happened after the accident ... including the time she spent with David. She could not explain though why she likes to visit certain places, not remembering that those were the places where her spirit and David used to hang out.

David gives up the apartment, and finds out that Elizabeth will be moving back in. In a last ditch attempt, he builds her dream rooftoop garden, and when she sees him in it, remembers everything. That is where the story ends.

Despite brilliant comic moments, some of them involving the pyschic dude Daryl, the movie is essentially a love story. Unfortunately, the romance is too light to make this a significant love story.