The contented suburban housewife of an ambitious plastic surgeon chokes to death on a South Korean chicken ball, and her sister, a dabbler in the occult who has come into possession of a copy of The Wisdom of Catagonia, raises her from her grave a year later -- not as a ghost or a zombie, but just as her same old, adorable, klutzy, Shelley Long self. (One slight catch: she has to find True Love before the next full moon or else -- and Gabriel Byrne, affecting a bedroom manner more sleepy than sexy, seems to fill the bill.) Screenwriter Susan Isaacs and director Frank Perry, who collaborated on Compromising Positions, find little occasion for humor in the situation, but plenty of occasion for lectures on Proper Values. With Judith Ivey. (1987) — Duncan Shepherd
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