Just like heaven is a romantic comedy movie directed by Mark Waters and adapted from a novel by Marc Levy with the title “If Only It Were True”. The story is surprisingly enjoyable and funny. It relies on the supernatural premise of two people being separated by death before they even meet. The guy was emotionally dead and the girl was physically dead.
The story was about Elizabeth Masterson (roled by Reese Witherspoon), a workaholic ER doctor in San Francisco with no time for a personal life. On the night her sister sets her up on a date with a guy, she gets into a tragic car accident. Weeks later, her stunningly beautiful apartment is sub-let by her family to a garden designer David Abbott (roled by Mark Ruffalo), a heartsick fellow who is still mourning his wife’s sudden death after two years. Unaware of her non-corporeal state of being and what happened to her, Elizabeth’s spirit stumbles upon David and accuses him of breaking into and squatting in her apartment. After several somewhat brief but contentious encounters, David agrees to help her find her identity and find out why he is the only one who can see her.
When finally they both find the identity of Elizabeth, her family is ready to release the medical treatment on her body and let her go for good from her unawake coma. They got troubles to convince Elizabeth’s sister that Elizabeth soul still alive in her coma. This situation forced David to do an extraordinary thing to save Elizabeth from her death. They both also got shocked when David’s friend told them that David was Elizabeth’s date that couldn’t be met before. At the end of the story, David can find a way to wake Elizabeth up from her long time sleep but at the same time she’s wake up, she couldn’t remember anything about David. But once again, love will bring you back…
"I just wanted you to have your garden"
Most of the charm of Just Like Heaven movie comes from seeing Elizabeth revive the brooding and emotionally empty David. Waters has a good eye for comedy and extracts some laughs by showing David talking and reacting to someone that no one else can see and he is crafty enough not to overuse that device.
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| Scenes from Just Like Heaven |
