Goodly awful. A reincarnation fantasy about a recycled soul, processed too quickly and not properly inoculated, who begins to remember his past life once he runs into his former wife -- not before he has already met, by a stupefying coincidence, her best friend and her now nubile daughter (who is, or was, "his" daughter too). This sets the stage for some flirtations with "incest," but without the courage or curiosity to follow it through. The movie seems to find nothing morbid or unhealthy about a prime-of-life widow remaining celibately devoted to her dead husband (placing food offerings in front of his photograph, and the like) for twenty-three years. It finds this instead to be nothing but cute and humorous. As, likewise, it finds the best friend's silent and suppressed love for her. The general giggliness extends to the use of corn cobs and the Washington Monument as phallic symbols; and its height of hilarity (or so it supposes) is reached when a Margaret Dumont-type dowager throws herself at a fresh young college grad: squeezing his buttock on the dance floor, her wig slipping off, etc., etc. With Robert Downey, Jr., Cybill Shepherd, Ryan O'Neal, and Mary Stuart Masterson; directed by Emile Ardolino. (1989) — Duncan Shepherd
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