Defending Your Life

1991 • 111 minutes
4.6
140 reviews
98%
Tomatometer
PG
Rating
Eligible
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About this movie

A romantic comedy about an ad executive who dies in a car collision and finds himself in Judgement City, defending his life before a celestial court. When he falls in love with a fellow candidate, his interest in staying in heaven changes.
Rating
PG

Ratings and reviews

4.6
140 reviews
Jason Miller
October 27, 2016
Overrated but worth watching as lighthearted brain candy. Would probably be better with a couple glasses of wine. Not on par with Wristcutters: A Love Story by any stretch of the imagination.
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friction 414
August 2, 2021
I am 36 and i saw the movie when i was young probably like 13. But i think this is one of my favs because its as real as it comes in the movie bizz. Today you see nothing but CGI and green svreen although i love some of those movies as well this is a NO B.S. kind of flick, awesome.
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Fred DeCanio
May 2, 2016
A Hollywood look at SPIRITUAL,. EVOLUTION. I was moved by the scene at the end, where Albert Brooks jumps on the tram carrying Meryl Streep. As he struggles to enter the tram and embrace her, she yells, "Don't let go". The door, finally opens and the DIVINE MARRIAGE manifests. What a metaphor on life, Don't Let Go!
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