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Albert Brooks wrote, directed and stars with Academy Award winner Meryl Streep in this delightfully offbeat romantic comedy that shows it's never too late to change your life--even if you're already dead.

When advertising executive Daniel Miller (Brooks) dies suddenly in a car accident, he's transported to Judgment City and faces a tribunal to decide whether he will go to a better place or return to earth for another incarnation. It doesn't look good for Miller, but unexpectedly and for the first time in his life--or his past lives--Miller discovers love.

Release: 1991
Running Time: 112 min

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  1. Sweet and highly entertaining

    06 December 2008
    A wonderful comedy-fantasy that has all the wit of a good Woody Allen movie combined with genuine sweetness and good-naturedness. It's one of those rare films that achieve profundity without pushing for it; here it is done with the help of the clever structure. Albert Brooks delivers some great one-liners and wins the audience's affection easily, while Meryl Streep is atypically unaffected and Lee Grant is excellent in her supporting role. And who could ask for a better ending?

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