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Writer Susan Isaacs and director Frank Perry of Compromising Positions re-team for this resurrection fantasy comedy. Shelley Long plays Lucy Chadman, the accident-prone wife of plastic surgeon Jason C... read more read more...hadman (Corbin Bernsen). When she chokes to death after eating a South Korean chicken ball, a funeral is held and she is mourned, but then everyone goes on with their lives and forgets about her. Everyone, that is, except her sister Zelda (Judith Ivey). Zelda runs an occult bookstore and as she peruses one of her books of incantations, she discovers a magical chant that can raise the dead. Obeying the rules of the incantation -- it has to be performed a year after the person dies and the resurrected person must find love within 30 days or the person will die again -- she brings back Lucy to life. Lucy immediately proceeds to her husband's home and finds that he is married to her best friend Kim (Sela Ward). She now has to deal with the changed circumstances of her husband, along with a burgeoning love affair with Kevin Scanlon (Gabriel Byrne), the emergency-room doctor who had tried to save her life. ~ Paul Brenner, Rovi

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PG, 1 hr. 36 min.

Directed by: Frank Perry

Release Date: November 6, 1987

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DVD Release Date: April 6, 2004

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  • February 4, 2011
    A really good dark comedy with a good cast, it's very funny, if you like movies where dead people come back with funny results, you'll like this movie.
  • December 9, 2007
    A funny movie about life, love, and friendship. Quirky, at first but one cannot help but fall in love with it.
  • March 25, 2008
    This is a cute funny movie from the 80's. Although Shelly Long is not a spectacular actress, this part suits her well. It is definetely worth checking out.
  • July 9, 2007
    Somewhat cute. One of the very few Shelley Long movies where I didn't want to strangle the life out of her character.
  • May 20, 2007
    Long Island house wife chokes to death and is brought back to life by her kooky witch like sister one year later and soon realizesthat she cant pick up where she left off. Shelly Long,Judith Ivey,
  • January 9, 2007
    Shelly Long was great in this movie! It was about her dying by choking on a Chicken Ball and her sister bringing her back with the wicca spells she uses! Really good you should see it!

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Variety Staff
October 30, 2007
Variety Staff, Variety

Shelley Long wanders through a script she can't carry by herself while heading a cast handled with less than a Midas touch by director Frank Perry, who seems to think he's staging a high school play. Full Review

Vincent Canby
May 20, 2003
Vincent Canby, New York Times

A high-concept comedy with a terminally low laugh content. Full Review

Roger Ebert
January 1, 2000
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times

There are the makings of a great comedy here, but you will not find more than scattered hints of it. Full Review

Hal Hinson
January 1, 2000
Hal Hinson, Washington Post

All of this is presented with a broad-stroked, sitcom raucousness that's pretty tough to stomach. Full Review

October 30, 2007
TV Guide's Movie Guide

As predictable as the sun rising. Full Review

June 24, 2006
Time Out

Merely the excuse for a parade of expensive clothes and opulent locations, with Shelley Long milking her role for any drop of pathos, this is good for a giggle at best. Full Review

Rich Cline
September 19, 2004
Rich Cline, Shadows on the Wall

yikes

Ken Hanke
July 30, 2002
Ken Hanke, Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)

There are worse films, but they don't have Gabriel Byrne in them

Mark R. Leeper
January 1, 2000
Mark R. Leeper, rec.arts.movies.reviews

For the first eighty minutes or so the story seems aimless but amiable, then suddenly things do start to happen, but nothing very good. Full Review

Chuck O'Leary
October 8, 2005
Chuck O'Leary, Fantastica Daily

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