Thanks to an attractive cast, the creamy cinematography of John Bailey, and the light touch of writer and first-time director Jeff Lowell, we have here an uncommonly pleasant romantic-comic fantasy, in the Blithe Spirit spirit. A heavier touch would have easily been possible in dealing with a jealous ghost hell-bent on thwarting her former fiancé’s first attempt at another relationship, a year after her wedding-day death. The “haunting” presence of a departed loved one carries a cargo of psychological truth, and the unfolding plot spells out the hypothetical question of whether you would want your remaining loved one, after your departure, to go on grieving your absence till the end of time or go on to be happy with someone else: a heart-versus-head question, no longer hypothetical. A heavier touch, needless to add, would have made matters decidedly less pleasant. The implications are clear enough without it. (The heavier touch is felt only in a burst, a splutter, a thunder of flatulence humor: fantasy flatulence, illusory flatulence, but flatulence nevertheless.) With Eva Longoria Parker, Paul Rudd, Lake Bell — the show-stealer, stepping up from the small screen — and Jason Biggs. (2008) — Duncan Shepherd
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