Just Like Heaven (2005)

Cautiously Recommended

USA

Feature Film

Director: Mark Waters

Writers: Leslie Dixon, Peter Tolan, Marc Levy

Cinematographer: Daryn Okada

Composer: Rolfe Kent

Cast: Reese Witherspoon, Mark Ruffalo, Donal Logue, Dina Waters, Ben Shenkman, Jon Heder, Ivana Milicevic

A widowed landscape gardener, filled with grief and premium lager, moves into a furnished flat on a month-to-month lease, and sets about wallowing in solitude – the trouble is the spirit of its previous tenant, a domineering doctor, has other ideas, in Waters’s palatably whimsical if vaguely sentimental rom-com, which overcomes its deficiencies with the considerable charms of its immensely charismatic leading pair. Iain.Stott