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Did I dream this 80s movie about a guy who died and came back to reconnect with his wife?
June 14, 2007 1:32 PM   RSS feed for this thread Subscribe

I'm looking for a movie I saw in the early 80s on cable - about a guy who dies and then is returned to Earth and tries to reconnect with his wife.

OK, it's not "Somewhere in Time" and not that movie about the football player. But this movie was sort of artsy where a guy dies and goes to heaven (I remember white flowing robes) and his "handler" allows him to go back to earth and win back his wife (but of course she doesn't know it's him).

Who knows? Maybe I dreamed it...
posted by monarch75 to media & arts (15 comments total) 1 user marked this as a favorite
Heaven Can Wait.
posted by GuyZero at 1:39 PM on June 14, 2007


Defending Your Life with Albert Brooks?
posted by sneakin at 1:39 PM on June 14, 2007


Heaven Can Wait?
posted by hermitosis at 1:40 PM on June 14, 2007


Unless that's the movie you mean by "that movie about the football player".
posted by GuyZero at 1:40 PM on June 14, 2007


Oh crap. Sorry.
posted by hermitosis at 1:40 PM on June 14, 2007


I'd say Ghost but it was made in 1990!
posted by dance at 1:41 PM on June 14, 2007


Made In Heaven ?
posted by dawdle at 1:42 PM on June 14, 2007


Defending Your Life was 1991 but I consider the "80's" to be from 1978 to 1992 or so.
posted by sneakin at 1:42 PM on June 14, 2007


Also, come to think of it, I think in Defending Your Life he falls in love with someone in heaven, rather than tries to smooth things over with his wife. Who remembers though.
posted by sneakin at 1:44 PM on June 14, 2007


the more I think of it... definitely Made In Heaven with Timothy Hutton and Kelly McGillis
posted by dawdle at 1:44 PM on June 14, 2007


I'm going to guess Always with Richard Dreyfuss, Holly Hunter and Audrey Hepburn. It came out in 1989, so I may be peeing in the breeze here....
posted by TryTheTilapia at 1:52 PM on June 14, 2007


Wow, that was quick. I'm always amazed by the wisdom of MeFites. Thanks!
posted by monarch75 at 1:57 PM on June 14, 2007


Ok, I had some of the details wrong. It was more mid-80s than early 80s. And I guess it wasn't his wife but it was a woman he met in Heaven. Cool....
posted by monarch75 at 1:58 PM on June 14, 2007


I was going to guess Chances Are
posted by DefendBrooklyn at 2:16 PM on June 14, 2007


I too was going to guess Chances Are. It sounds much more like what you described initially.
posted by bluishorange at 5:33 PM on June 14, 2007


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