Just Like Heaven

Summary: David, a lonely architect, finds an amazing apartment, only to discover it's haunted by the spirit of the previous tenant Elizabeth, an overachieving doctor. Eventually, he falls in love with her.

Release Date: September 16, 2005

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy

Director: Mark Waters

Writers: Peter Tolan

, Leslie Dixon

, Marc Lévy

Runtime: 1 h 35 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: Dreamworks Pictures, Parkes/MacDonald Image Nation, Amblin Entertainment

Distributor: American Broadcasting Company (ABC), DreamWorks Home Entertainment

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 58,000,000

Domestic: $ 48,318,130

International: $ 54,536,301

Box office:

Budget:$58MDomestic:$48.3MInternational:$54.5MWorldwide:$102.9M

Adaptation/remake:

based on novel, title based on song

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Dreamworks Pictures

Amblin Entertainment

21%

The Rotten Tomatoes audience rated this 21% higher than the critics.

54%75%

The Metacritic audience rated this 37% higher than the critics.

Metacritic Meta:

47/100

Metacritic User:

84/100

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39% of the Stars & Main Cast are Female.

19% of the Stars & Main Cast are "diverse."

White68.75%Jewish12.5%Asian12.5%Black6.25%

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Violence3/5
Sex3/5

Dove

Sex2/5
Language4/5
Drugs3/5
Nudity3/5
Other2/5

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2000s afterlife amnesia on waking apartment apparition attempted exorcism aunt niece relationship aura bar bare chested male based on novel bed ridden bodily possession bookstore clerk cable car candle car accident cell phone child sees a ghost child's tea party close up of eyes coaster coma patient crying man destiny revealed doctor patient relationship dream drink stain drinking drunkenness dry cleaners ends with a kiss estate garden fate female doctor female ghost first aid flashback flashing flirty female flyer framed photograph friend friendship ghost ghostbuster golden gate bridge grieving widower guitar player gust of wind hairy chested male heartbroken man heaven holy water husband wife relationship implied nudity independent film injection kiss landscape architect loneliness loss of wife love triangle magic man in a shower meat cleaver as a weapon montage mouth to mouth resuscitation neo screwball comedy occult research occult ritual opens with daydream out of body experience pneumothorax product placement psychic punched in the face race against time rain real estate agent reference to a blind date reference to cerebral hemorrhage reference to little orphan annie reference to sleeping beauty restaurant road accident rooftop rooftop garden san francisco california saving a life security guard sidewalk cafe snowglobe soul mate spare key spirit subletting an apartment supernatural power therapist throwing a drink on someone timeframe 2000s title based on song transamerica pyramid turning off life support unfinished business van rental waking up from a coma widower single woman relationship woman in a coma workaholic woman

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This film gets a 2/5 family friendly score

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IMDb Rating https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0425123/parentalguide last updated: 2024-10-25Update data
Commonsensemedia Rating https://www.commonsensemedia.org/movie-reviews/just-like-heaven last updated: 2024-10-25Update data
Violence 3/5	Car crash at start is abrupt, but not explicitly shown.
Sex 3/5	Some conversation about sex; woman appears in revealing "exercise" outfit; woman in a towel drops it (view from her back); joke about "lubricant."
Language 0/5	Mild language.
Drugs 0/5	Characters drink (beer in front of tv; one scene in a bar).
Dove Rating https://dove.org/review/5058-just-like-heaven/
Faith 0/5	None
Sex 2/5	Man and woman kiss; woman invites man into the bedroom to have sex
Language 4/5	h-word - 7; a- word - 4; OMG - 1; J - 1; OG - 1; G - 2; MG - 2; D*mn-it; s-word - 2;
Violence 0/5	Man hits man
Drugs 3/5	Man drinks many beers and gets drunk, same man drinks a lot; patrons shown drinking at a bar.
Nudity 3/5	Mans bare bottom shown, cleavage shown on women; woman drops a towel exposing everything to a man, but not the camera; man is shown in the shower from the waist up and then puts a towel around his waist and gets out of the shower.
Other 2/5	occult books consulted; priest tries an exorcism; man tries to call "the spirit" to come forth (all of these are mainly used as comedy bits, only on psychic is taken and portrayed "seriously".

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