Heaven Can Wait
Joe Pendleton, a quarterback poised to lead his team to the Super Bowl, narrowly escapes a fatal accident. An anxious angel plucks him to heaven, only to discover that his body has already been cremated. With no body to inhabit, the body of a recently murdered millionaire is chosen. His wife and the accountant—the murderers—are baffled by this turn of events as Pendleton, now in the murdered man's body, buys the L.A. Rams to quarterback them into the Super Bowl.
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Craig Huston
Hawk Koch
Karen Hale Wookey
Craig R. Baxley
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Maybe Warren Beatty was also a fan of Powell & Pressburger as this has shades of "Matter of Life and Death" (1946) to it. Rather than a fighter pilot though, it's quarter-back "Joe" (Beatty) who is erroneously selected to take the Concorde to heaven. He protests to supremo "Jordan" (James Mason) who discovers that his new charge is still supposed to have another fifty-odd years with his mortal coil. OK, let's just put him back. Ah, well no - he has already been cremated. That's just one jigsaw puzzle too much, even for the celestial. "Jordan" decides that he can borrow the body of someone next in the queue, and he settles on millionaire industrialist "Farnsworth". This man has more enemies that he'd care to count, not least his scheming wife (Dyan Cannon) and the pesky British campaigner "Betty" (Julie Christie) who is adamant that her local village isn't going to be demolished to make way for an oil refinery. Now safely ensconced his new body, he only has thoughts of going back to playing ball - only now he can afford to actually buy a team. Re-uniting with coach "Max" (Jack Warden) whom he manages to convince of his true identity, we now embark on a gentle comedy that extols the virtues of team building and environmentally aware business practice. Cannon steals this as the plotting spouse, but Mason doesn't really make much impact and otherwise it's all just a rather blandly predictable offering that has it's moments but just not enough of them. Watchable, though, on a wet afternoon if it's on the telly.
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The directors of Heaven Can Wait are Craig Huston, Hawk Koch, Karen Hale Wookey, and Craig R. Baxley.
The cast of Heaven Can Wait includes Jack Warden as Max Corkle, Richard O'Brien as Advisor to Former Owner, Hamilton Camp as Bentley, Warren Beatty as Joe Pendleton, Charles Grodin as Tony Abbott, Will Hare as Team Doctor, William Sylvester as Nuclear Reporter, Allan Graf as Football Player (uncredited), Julie Christie as Betty Logan, Bryant Gumbel as TV Sportscaster (uncredited), Arthur Malet as Everett, Joel Marston as Board Member, and more.
The duration of Heaven Can Wait is 1h 41 mins.
Yes. You can watch the Heaven Can Wait trailer on this Fanbiz page on Fanziz.
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Heaven Can Wait was released on 28 Jun 1978.
Heaven Can Wait is listed under Fantasy, Comedy, and Romance on Fanbiz.
Heaven Can Wait has 1 review on Fanziz, with an average rating of 6.0/10. One reviewer wrote: "Maybe Warren Beatty was also a fan of Powell & Pressburger as this has shades of "Matter of Life and Death" (1946) to it. Rather than a fighter pilot though, it's quarter-back "..."
