Heaven Can Wait
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A remake of a 1941 film called Here Comes Mr. Jordan, Warren Beatty directed and starred as a football player who is erroneously plucked from his earthly body before his time. While heaven itself is never seen (because it can wait, after all), we get a glimpse of the way station, where Joe, in sweats and carrying his clarinet, wanders in a misty, solemn place where souls are silently and obediently lined up to be transported, via Concorde, then the latest in space age transportation, to their “ultimate destination.”
Defending Your Life
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Like Heaven Can Wait, we don’t get a look at the ultimate destination, but a way station, Judgment City, where souls go through an examination period to determine if they are fit to move on to paradise. Billed as “the first true story about what happens after you die,” director and star Albert Brooks creates an afterlife where “life” is still full of bad TV, Kiwanis meetings and lawyers, and looks like pretty much like any city — with malls, diners and office parks. The newly dead, wearing white robes, can eat three-pounds of pasta at a sitting without fear of gaining weight, enjoy luxury hotels with in-room jacuzzis and check out the Past Lives Pavilion, where they get a glimpse of who they’ve were in past sojourns on earth.