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Heaven Can Wait
Directed by
Buck Henry
,
Warren Beatty
PG
1978
1h 41m
Comedy
,
Fantasy
,
and more
6.9
82%
69%
6.6
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A Los Angeles Rams quarterback, accidentally taken away from his body by an overanxious angel before he was meant to die, returns to life in the body of a recently murdered millionaire.
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Cast of Heaven Can Wait
Warren Beatty
Joe Pendleton / Director / Screenplay / Producer
Julie Christie
Betty Logan
James Mason
Mr. Jordan
Jack Warden
Max Corkle
Charles Grodin
Tony Abbott
Dyan Cannon
Julia Farnsworth
Buck Henry
The Escort / Director
Vincent Gardenia
Krim
Joseph Maher
Sisk
Hamilton Camp
Bentley
Arthur Malet
Everett
Stephanie Faracy
Corinne
Jeannie Linero
Lavinia
Harry D.K. Wong
Gardener
George J. Manos
Security Guard
Larry Block
Peters
Frank Campanella
Conway
Bill Sorrells
Tomarken
Dick Enberg
TV Interviewer
Dolph Sweet
Head Coach
Heaven Can Wait Ratings & Reviews
The New Yorker
Pauline Kael
The film has no desire but to please, and that's its only compulsiveness; it's so timed and pleated and smoothed that it's sliding right off the screen.
The Film Yap
Christopher Lloyd
Warren Beatty starred in, co-directed and co-wrote this fluffy, light-as-air romantic comedy about a football player who comes back from the dead as a sort of a proto-Forrest Gump.
FlickDirect
Allison Rose
Beatty's determined yet charming Joe is formidable, naïve, and optimistic all at the same time
Film Frenzy
Matt Brunson
A wonderful piece of entertainment that's as funny as it is fanciful.
L.A. Weekly
Ginger Varney
Not much meat here, but there are generous helpings of what we say we want: laughs, lovely ladies and cute men and a trouble or two made all better by any number of decent folks before the final frame.
Epoch Times
Michael Clark
Beatty reached his commercial and creative zenith with this movie. Having May, Henry and Towne picking up some of the slack behind the camera certainly helped but it's clear he had the final word on every creative aspect of this unforgettable classic.
Berkeley Barb
Marina Hirsch
Despite its superficialities and plot confusions, Heaven Can Wait is an interesting movie to watch, mainly because of the presence of Julie Christie.
People Magazine
People Staff
Along the way there is fun, football, romance and thoroughly satisfying unreality. Movies are supposed to be like this.
Santa Cruz Sentinel
Rick Chatenever
A pleasant little puff piece that is sure to be just loved by most of those who see it.
Gannett News Service
Bernard Drew
It's charming, witty, touching, and despite its previous incarnation, still fresh and original.
Washington Post
Judith Martin
This is a very sweet movie to watch, the pleasant cinematic equivalent of light summer reading.
Common Sense Media
Renee Schonfeld
Still-relevant '70s comic fantasy has some profanity.
TIME Magazine
Frank Rich
[The film] has everything going for it: big laughs, populist politics, billowy sequences set in heaven, a murder plot, a climactic Super Bowl game, a supporting cast of choice comic actors, and best of all, a touching (but PG) romance.
Variety
Variety Staff
Heaven Can Wait is an outstanding film.
EmanuelLevy.Com
Emanuel Levy
Supremely produced, this whimsical romantic comedy served as star vehicle for Julie Christie and Warren Beatty, who made an impressive co-directing debut with Buck Henry; the film deservedly won the Oscar for Art Direction.
TV Guide
There are a few laughs from Grodin and Cannon, but Beatty and Christie are like 400-pound gorillas chasing a milkweed seed.
Chicago Reader
Jonathan Rosenbaum
It's certainly likable enough and was a big hit when it came out, but one could hardly call it an auspicious artistic debut -- a crafty commercial entertainment with a certain amount of intelligence is more like it.
New York Times
Vincent Canby
There's nothing worse than a pushy narrative.
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
This is the kind of upbeat screwball comedy Hollywood used to do smoothly and well.
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