People who hate rom coms will loathe this one. It not only has a starry eyed young couple dancing round each other until - well, you know what happens in the end - but it has that extra supernatural element. Yes, our heroine Elizabeth (Reese Witherspoon) is in a coma after knocking her head on the way to a date with our hero David (Mark Ruffalo). The twist is that her spirit, in the form of an imaginary friend that only he can see, appears to Ruffalo, when he rents her former apartment. He comes to understand that her physical self, unconscious in the hospital, isn't brain dead, and he tries to stop her family turning her life support machine off, but he can't explain to them why. Ruffalo and Witherspoon are both appealing, intelligent actors and it's hard to say whether they're treating it all as a laugh. Ruffalo just plays his usual adorable self. The young, perky Witherspoon has about three expressions - doe eyed, frowning and happy. But they do have good chemistry as a couple, and the final scenes in the hospital are funny. The very underrated comedian Jon Heder (Napoleon Dynamite, Blades of Glory) puts in a hilarious cameo as a stoned, unhinged clairvoyant in a shop who the couple consult.
Review of Just Like Heaven
