Afterlife #movie #blog

I am taking a break from my time travel blog posts to explore afterlife books and movies. I consider most of these stories fantasy. They don’t necessarily represent my personal belief in what the afterlife is like. For that check out my book: Pennies From Across the Veil, which is based on true phenomena.
 
Having said that, the first movie I am featuring deals with the theory of reincarnation. I enjoy stories with this theme, even though it is not part of my own theology. I mean no disrespect for those who believe in it.

The first film in this category is:

​Chances Are

It stars:
 
Cybill Shepherd
Robert Downey, Jr.
Ryan O'Neal
Mary Stuart Masterson
Christopher McDonald
 
Chances Are was released in 1989. 

Louie and Corrine Jeffries (McDonald and Shepherd) are a happily married couple until Louie is hit and killed by a car. He ends up in heaven with severe separation anxiety from Corrine. So the Heaven authorities agree to let him go back and be born again. But Louie slips past without getting his inoculation which makes you forget your past life.
 
Louie is reborn in a new body (Robert Downey, Jr.) who, at first grows up not knowing anything about his past life. One day he meets a cute young woman named, Miranda. Through a work colleague, Phillip (Ryan O’Neal) he gets invited to Miranda’s house, where he meets her mom, Corrine. 

Robert Downey, Jr. and Ryan O'Neal

Louie begins to remember who he was and the movie becomes very comical as he tries to convince Corrine that he is her dead husband, who, by the way, Corrine never got over losing. He also realizes that Miranda is his own daughter, who he had never met in his other life. He has to pull away from her as he seduces her mom, Corrine.
 
Quote: Louie: “Miranda, go to your room.”

Mary Stuart Masterson as Amanda

It’s odd to see Iron Man (Robert Downey, Jr.) in such a young role, yet it wasn’t odd for me to see him and Cybill Shepherd together. I thought they had better chemistry than he and Masterson. 

The 44 year old Cybill Shepherd was extremely sexy in this role and the way it was cast and acted made it plausible. 

Ryan O'Neal as Phillip Train also did a great job. Phillip had been in love with Corrine even as she was marrying Louie back in the 1960s. He never stopped loving her. She just thought of him as a dear friend. But when push came to shove, literally, as Phillip and Louie have a fight, the question is raised where her true feelings and loyalties lie. 

The movie has a good ending, but some people were disappointed by who ended up with whom. Others were not. 

Original cover release

​Check out my afterlife book: Pennies From Across the Veil where the seemingly paranormal phenomena recorded, are entirely based on true events.