Tuesday 11 September 2018

Heart and Souls (1993 Ron Underwood)

A whimsical film about four deceased bus crash victims who become attached to a baby, which grows up to be Robert Downey Jr. He then has to help them realise their one big goal before being moved on to the hereafter. The ghosts are Alfre Woodard, Charles Grodin, Kyra Sedgwick and Tim Sizemore, with David Paymer the bus driver, and Downey's girlfriend is played by Elisabeth Shue.

The screenplay's by Gregory Hansen & Erik Hansen (their only feature) and I presume spruced by the more seasoned Brent Maddock & S.S. Wilson (Tremors, The Wild Wild West, Ghost Dad, Short Circuit), and is not without the occasional dubious plot point and line of dialogue. There seems to have been quite a spate of fantasy type comedies around this time, maybe emanating from Ghost?



Downey - in his follow-up to Chaplin - is the main reason for watching, and has some fun when the other ghosts 'take over' his body.

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