zaidarms1
and that is why i gave a 9....nonetheless for that portion of your humanity that craves and wishes for something totally apart from this world yet should come to exist in this world, this movie captures it very well. the actor's environment being started and portrayed a little more on the dark side gave the searching for his love greater intensity. What gave the movie an ever greater meaning was that "song", the singer's voice and the very significant title which gives the love story its peak when they did dance.Put in on DVD, please!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! and the song on CD!!!!!!!!!!!!!
jewel13dec
I tend to go easy on films that attempt the spiritual or portray great love.I thought the film was delightful, especially from a Spiritist (Allan Kardec) standpoint. Okay the story and the acting are sometimes a little "cute" and simple, but the ideas are fantastic (heaven, reincarnation, enduring love), and it is fun to watch all the famous folks doing bit parts.Maybe if we focused our energies into making movies about things that really matter we could have better quality films about God, Heaven, Love, and our true spiritual life. However, we don't, and at least there are a few people who try, such as the people who made this movie. Wish I could find more.
Heidelberggirl
This was a fabulous movie. It makes you sad, and happy, and hoping, and wishing, and everything that a movie should do. The sound track alone is worth it, I bought it and it is SOoooooooooo GREAT!!! Both feature players, Hutton & McGillis are so convincing in their roles. GREAT movie!! It shows that Heaven can be all things for all people, and is just dreamy. You despair at the last minute and then,.... well, you will have to see it yourself. I think it's a real classic. At times it is a real heart grabber. You think.. JUST TURN AROUND!!!Wish it was on DVD.
Ben Burgraff (cariart)
Alan Rudolph's MADE IN HEAVEN is a pleasant, sweet-natured romantic comedy with a twist; the lovers meet in Heaven, after our hero (Timothy Hutton) dies, rescuing a family from a car that plunges into a river. It may seem familiar territory to viewers of Robin Williams' drama, WHAT DREAMS MAY COME, in it's depiction of the afterlife and reincarnation, and the Albert Brooks' fantasy, DEFENDING YOUR LIFE, which also involves a romance in Heaven (in Brooks' case, with Meryl Streep). Without the budget of the Williams' film (which won an Oscar for it's visual effects), or Brooks' occasionally caustic humor about Divine Judgment, MADE IN HEAVEN is a simpler tale, weaving in a theme of predestination between lovers 'meant' to be together, which makes it a perfect 'date' movie.Hutton, dealing with being dead and in 'Paradise', appreciates the support of his Aunt Lisa (Maureen Stapleton), a long-dead budding painter in a heavenly Paris, but finds that he is lonely, and feels out of place. Then he meets heavenly guide Annie (Kelly McGillis), a new 'soul', who had never 'lived' on earth before, and the pair soon fall for each other, filling both his need for love and companionship, and her's, for an understanding of life, and passion. They marry, after being granted permission by 'The Boss', Emmett (an unbilled Debra Winger, who plays the male role very convincingly!)Everything seems perfectly heavenly...until Anne's number is called to be born on Earth. Despite Hutton's pleas that the pair were 'meant' to be together, Anne's destiny cannot be changed...but he does convince Emmett to allow him to be 'reborn' on Earth, insisting that the pair's love would bring them together. With the understanding that his new life may not return him to Heaven, Emmett grants him 30 years to connect with Annie...or else.In true soap opera fashion, the pair live wildly different lives, and have unfulfilling relationships with other partners, while each experiences flashbacks of the true love they had experienced in Heaven. Time is running out, however, and Hutton's 30th birthday is rapidly approaching, without meeting his soulmate... A modest film, with a great supporting cast (including Tim Daly, Don Murray, Mare Winningham, and Amanda Plummer), MADE IN HEAVEN's theme, that Love truly DOES conquer all, is irresistible.Grab YOUR soulmate, and enjoy it!
