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Film: Just Like Heaven Mark Waters 95 MINS, PG
Independent on Sunday, The, Jan 1, 2006 by Nicholas Barber
Mark Ruffalo and Reese Witherspoon are the classic odd couple. He's swarthy and saturnine, she's perky and blonde. He's a lazy slob, she's tidy and industrious. And, crucially, he's alive and she's a ghost " or so it seems.
Just after he moves into a new apartment with some of the best views in San Francisco, she walks through a wall and insists that it's her home, not his. Now the reluctant room-mates have to work out whether she really does live there. And, indeed, whether she really does live, at all.
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As you watch Just Like Heaven, the ghosts of several 1980s supernatural comedies haunt your memory: we can all remember scenes of a human talking to a ghost and seeming, in everyone else's eyes, to be jabbering into thin air. It's not hugely innovative, then, but it's a sweet confection, and it's been assembled with an efficiency that was more common in the Eighties than it is now, with enough bubbly comic set-pieces to offset the melancholy romance, and vice versa.
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