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Sep 16, 2005 9:09 am US/Central
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Just Like Heaven
Richard Roeper: "See It"
(CBS)
I know some people are going to hate this romantic comedy because it's so blatantly sentimental that it makes "Sleepless in Seattle" look like "9 1/2 Weeks," but you know what? It got to me.
With less attractive actors, this film might have felt clunky and obvious, but the leads are just terrific. When Reese Witherspoon plays these super-smart, super-adorable control freaks, she's nearly impossible to resist. Even when she might be dead. The reliable Mark Ruffalo plays David, a young widower who has just moved into the apartment
formerly, and currently, occupied by Witherspoon's Elizabeth, who doesn't realize her fate.
And look it's Napoleon Dynamite, real name Jon Heder, as Darryl, a slacker psychic. Like the rest of the world save David, Darryl can't actually see Elizabeth, but he does believe she's there.
Even though Elizabeth is caught between worlds, she and David have a fairly conventional movie courtship, starting with mutual loathing that develops into familiar friendship and explodes into love.
Rated PG-13, "Just Like Heaven" is a lightweight comedy with two enormously likable leads. It's corny and fairly predictable, but it's also sweet and funny.
See It.
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