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Just Like Heaven is a 2005 American romantic comedy fantasy film directed by Mark Waters, starring Reese Witherspoon, Mark Ruffalo, and Jon Heder. It is based on the 1999 French novel If Only It Were True (Et si c'était vrai...) by Marc Levy.

Just Like Heaven
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Mark Waters
Screenplay by	Peter Tolan Leslie Dixon
Based on	If Only It Were True by Marc Levy
Produced by	Walter F. Parkes Laurie MacDonald
Starring	Reese Witherspoon Mark Ruffalo
Cinematography	Daryn Okada
Edited by	Bruce Green
Music by	Rolfe Kent
Production company	Parkes/MacDonald Productions
Distributed by	DreamWorks Pictures
Release date	September 16, 2005 (2005-09-16)
Running time	95 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$58 million
Box office	$102.9 million[1]

Steven Spielberg obtained the rights to produce the film from the book.[2] The film was released in the United States on September 16, 2005. It received mixed reviews from critics and grossed $102 million.

Plot

Elizabeth Masterson, a young emergency medicine physician in San Francisco whose work is everything, is in a serious car accident while on her way to a blind date at her sister's. Three months later, landscape architect David Abbott, needing a fresh start from a tragic event, moves into Elizabeth's apartment, after 'discovering' it in what seems to be a fateful happenstance.

Elizabeth begins to appear to David in the apartment, and both are confused. She thinks he's a squatter, and he thinks she broke in. Soon they see she isn't really alive as she can suddenly appear and disappear, and move through walls and objects. Elizabeth doesn't know who she is, and insists she's not dead. David unsuccessfully tries to have her spirit exorcised from the apartment.

David enlists the help of psychic bookstore clerk, Darryl, who says Elizabeth isn't really dead. He also tells David he's clearly got a blocked heart, and needs to let go of the woman who was previously in his life. When Elizabeth says David should get over being dumped, he storms out, and Darryl tells Elizabeth to not disrespect the dead. She finds David and he explains his wife Laura had died.

As only David can see and hear her, others think he is hallucinating, drinking, and talking to himself. Elizabeth asks him to help her discover who she is and what happened. David talks to her neighbours but they didn't know her.

Entering a restaurant, a man has a medical emergency, so Elizabeth helps David save his life. Suddenly, she remembers being a doctor, and they go to the nearest hospital, where it all comes flooding back. Her mentor Fran tells David that Elizabeth was in an accident three months ago, and has been in a coma. When David touches the her hand, Elizabeth feels it, so she knows she's still connected to her body.

Elizabeth's sister Abby arrives, and the attending doctor notifies her that Elizabeth signed a DNR order, but as she was a doctor there, they've treated her as a special case. However, he asks Abby to disconnect life support, and she says she'll consider it.

David and Elizabeth bond, and he tells her about his wife's death. When he takes her out to a beautiful landscaped garden he designed, she tells him she senses she has been there before. In fact, she was dreaming of the garden in the opening scenes of the film, while cat-napping during a long shift.

When David's told he's been offered a long term lease, he realises Elizabeth will be taken off life support. He tries to prevent it by going to Abby's to tell her that Elizabeth is communicating with him, proving it by telling Abby things only Elizabeth knows. While there, her niece Lily can sense her, putting a cookie on the plate before her.

David begs Abby to keep her alive, but she has already signed the papers so Elizabeth will be taken off life support the next day. As a last ditch effort, David blurts out Abby's secret from her wedding day, freaking her out so she drives him out of her house with a knife.

Elizabeth opts to spend her last night with David in the apartment. The next morning, he is determined to prevent her death by stealing her body from the hospital. He enlists his friend/therapist Jack (Abby's former college boyfriend) to help him. He had set David up a blind date with Elizabeth on the night of the accident - David can see Elizabeth because they were meant to meet. He admits to Jack and Elizabeth that he loves her which is why he doesn't want her to die; he has gotten past his wife's death.

Security guards soon catch them trying to steal Elizabeth's body. As they pull Jack away from her, her breathing tube comes off. As Elizabeth is now dying, David frantically kisses her, while her spirit begins to fade away. Then, amazingly, her heartbeat returns and she awakens from the coma. Elizabeth recognizes Abby, but not David, and he sadly leaves.

Sometime later, Elizabeth moves back into her apartment. Drawn to the roof, she finds David, who has transformed it into a landscaped garden. He reveals he'd gotten in using the spare key her spirit had shown him. When she asks for her key back, their hands touch, her memory of the events during her coma are restored, and they kiss happily.

The final scene fades away from the rooftop to show Darryl staring into a snow globe.

Cast

Critical reception

On Rotten Tomatoes the film holds an approval rating of 54% based on 151 reviews, with an average rating of 5.6/10. The site's consensus reads, "Delightfully sweet like a lollipop, Just Like Heaven is a dreamy romantic comedy that may give you a toothache when it attempts to broach difficult end of life issues by throwing a cherry on top."[3] Metacritic assigned the film a weighted average score of 47 out of 100, based on 31 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews".[4] Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "B+" on an A+ to F scale.[5]

Roger Ebert, Richard Roeper, and A. O. Scott all gave it favorable reviews, agreeing that the plot had logical flaws that were somewhat overcome by good dialogue and characterization.

Theme song

The title of this film is also that of a popular 1987 song, "Just Like Heaven" by The Cure. Singer Katie Melua recorded a cover version of the song for the soundtrack of the film. Melua's version is played over the opening titles, and has lines such as "she said" changed to "he said" to maintain a heterosexual narrative. The original version by The Cure, as well as the remainder of Melua's version, are played over the closing credits.

The orchestral score was written by Rolfe Kent, and orchestrated by Tony Blondal.

Soundtrack

Track No.	Title	Writer and music composer	Performer	Producer	Courtesy (TM/C)	License
01	"Just Like Heaven"	Robert Smith, Boris Williams, Simon Gallup, Paul Thompson, and Laurence Tolhurst	Katie Melua	Ralph Sall and Mike Batt	Dramatico Records
02	"Lust for Life"	David Bowie and Iggy Pop	Kay Hanley	Ralph Sall
03	"Strange Invitation"	Beck	Beck		Geffen Records	Universal Music Enterprises
04	"Good Times Roll"	Ric Ocasek	The Cars		Elektra Entertainment Group	Warner Music Group (Film & TV)
05	"I Put a Spell on You"	Jay Hawkins	Screamin' Jay Hawkins		Epic Records	Sony/BMG Music Entertainment
06	"Just My Imagination (Running Away with Me)"	Barrett Strong and Norman J. Whitfield	Pete Yorn	Ralph Sall	Columbia Records (Pete Yorn appearance)
07	"Bad Faith" "Fuji Dawn"	Andrew Dorfman			Megathor Music
08	"Tomorrow" (from the Broadway musical Annie)	Martin Charnin and Charles Strouse	Reese Witherspoon
09	"Ghostbusters"	Ray Parker Jr.	Bowling for Soup	Ralph Sall and Jaret Reddick	Jive Records (Bowling For Soup appearance)
10	"Big Brown Eyes"	Ron Hacker	Ron Hacker
11	"Moonbeam Lullabye"	Daniel May	Daniel May		Marc Ferrari/Matersource
12	"Jungle Fever"	Bill Ador	The Chakachas		Universal Music S.A. (Belgium)	Universal Music Enterprises
13	"Brass in Pocket"	Chrissie Hynde & James Honeyman-Scott	Kelis	Ralph Sall	LaFace Records/ The Zomba Label Group (Kelis appearance)
14	"Swim with Me"	Murray Cook, Jeff Fatt, Anthony Field, Greg Page, and Paul Paddick	The Wiggles		The Wiggles Production PTY Limited
15	"Bad Case of Lovin' You"	John Martin	Emerson Hart	Ralph Sall
16	"Spooky"	Buddy Buie, James Cobb, Harry Middlebrooks, and Mike Shapiro	Imogen Heap	Ralph Sall and Imogen Heap	Megaphone Records (Imogen Heap appearance)	Zync Music Inc.
17	"Colors"	Amos Lee	Amos Lee		Blue Note Records	EMI Film and Television Music
18	"Just Like Heaven"		The Cure		Elektra Entertainment Group Warner Music Group Film & TV Licensing & Fiction Records Limited/ Polydor Ltd. (U.K.)	Universal Music Enterprises

See also

• Always (1989 film)
• Endukante... Premanta!
• Ghost (1990 film)
• Ghost Town
• Soulmates
• Vismayathumbathu (2004)

References

External links

• Official website
• Just Like Heaven at IMDb
• Just Like Heaven at AllMovie
• Just Like Heaven at Rotten Tomatoes

На других языках

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[de] Solange du da bist (2005)

Solange du da bist (Originaltitel: Just Like Heaven) ist eine US-amerikanische Filmkomödie aus dem Jahr 2005. Die Regie führte Mark Waters, das Drehbuch schrieben Leslie Dixon und Peter Tolan frei nach dem Roman Et si c’était vrai … von Marc Levy aus dem Jahr 2000. Die Hauptrollen spielten Reese Witherspoon und Mark Ruffalo.

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- [en] Just like Heaven (film)

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[ru] Между небом и землёй (фильм, 2005)

«Между небом и землёй» (англ. Just Like Heaven — «Точно как в раю») — романтическая комедия, снятая режиссёром Марком Уотерсом по мотивам романа Марка Леви — «А если это правда?» (фр. Et si c'était vrai)[5]. В главных ролях Риз Уизерспун и Марк Руффало.

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