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Rating: PG13 Genre: Fantasy Release Date: 11/17/1998 SubTitles: English/Espanol Dubbed: English/French Sound: DD5.1 Run Time: 104 Minutes Flags: Suitable for Children Distributor/Studio: Universal Studios
Director Ron Underwood follows up his crowd-pleasing hit City Slickers (1991) with this likable, feel-good comedy drama about a selfish businessman who discovers that he's permanently being followed by a group of ghosts. In 1959, a bus accident links the spirits of four fatally injured passengers to a newborn baby whose birth is caused by the crash. For 25 years, Milo (Tom Sizemore), Harrison (Charles Grodin), Penny (Alfre Woodard) and Julia (Kyra Sedgwick) remain bound to Thomas Reilly (Robert Downey Jr.), who believes the quartet to be imaginary childhood friends that have long since disappeared. When the four spooks suddenly realize that they are meant to use Thomas as a conduit to bring closure to their unfinished corporeal lives, they reemerge, causing Thomas to think that he's gone insane. As he becomes reattached to his supernatural companions, however, Thomas' innate decency asserts itself and he begins helping them to right the wrongs in their lives, allowing them to possess his body to achieve their goal of settling accounts and moving on into the afterlife.
~ Karl Williams, All Movie Guide
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from Fort Lauderdale, Florida Shades of Topper Fantasy-Comedy.
Ron Underwood, the director of City Slickers attempts to duplicate his success by directing this Heaven-Can-Wait style fantasy in which Charles Grodin, Kyra Sedgwick, Tom Sizemore, and Alfre Woodard play four earthbound spirits, who are linked to a selfish businessman, played by Robert Downey, Jr., who was born at the exact moment of their deaths, and only he can help them settle any unfinished business they have, in order for them to move on. Also starring Elisabeth Shue, David Paymer, Eric Lloyd, Bill Calvert, Lisa Lucas, Richard Portnow, and B.B. King.
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