Heart and Souls (1993) on Netflix
PG-1319931h 44mComedyDramaFantasy
In 1959 San Francisco, four strangers die in a trolleybus crash and their souls attach to a newborn, Thomas Reilly. Decades later they return, needing his help to finish their business.
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Plot summary
In a 1959 San Francisco trolleybus crash, four strangers die: Penny, a single mother; Harrison, a would-be singer held back by stage fright; Julia, a waitress who has just refused her boyfriend John; and Milo, a small-time thief. Their souls attach to Thomas Reilly, born in another car at the same moment. Only Thomas sees and hears them, and they stay with him as his playmates until he is seven, when his parents' alarm makes the four hide themselves from him. Feeling abandoned, he grows into a foreclosure banker who keeps his girlfriend Anne at a distance. The four learn that they died with unfinished business and that Thomas is the one who can help them settle it, so they appear to him again.
Cast
- Shannon Orrockas Woman at Audition
- Michael Zebulonas Singer at Audition
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Heart and Souls (1993)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- B. B. King makes a cameo appearance as himself, while Bob Newhart's son, Robert, makes a brief appearance playing his own father performing on stage in 1959.
- Robert Downey Jr. won the Saturn Award for Best Actor for the film, which also drew Saturn nominations for Charles Grodin and Tom Sizemore, for Kyra Sedgwick and Alfre Woodard, for director Ron Underwood, for Marc Shaiman's music and for Best Fantasy Film.
- Released by Universal Pictures on August 13, 1993, the film received mixed reviews from critics and lost money, grossing $16.5 million against a $25 million budget.
