Just Like Heaven (2005) on Netflix
PG-1320051h 35mComedyFantasyRomance
Elizabeth Masterson, a San Francisco doctor, appears in her apartment, unable to recall her life and certain she has not died. Only David Abbott, the widower who sublets it, can see her.
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Plot summary
Elizabeth Masterson is a young physician in San Francisco, and her work leaves her almost no time for anything else. A car crash follows, and three months afterward David Abbott, a recent widower, takes a sublet on her apartment. Elizabeth appears in it, and the two of them each assume the other has broken in. They work out that she can pass through walls and furniture, that she has no memory of her own life, and that she is sure she has not died. Since only David can see and hear her, everyone else takes her for a hallucination, and she asks him to help her learn who she is. He questions the other people in the building first, and none of them recognize her.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Just Like Heaven (2005)
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- Singer Katie Melua recorded a cover of The Cure's 1987 song 'Just like Heaven' for the soundtrack, changing lines such as 'she said' to 'he said' to keep the lyrics heterosexual.
- Steven Spielberg obtained the rights to produce the film from the book, and despite mixed reviews from critics the finished picture grossed $102.9 million on a budget of $58 million.
- The soundtrack was released by Columbia Records instead of DreamWorks Records, which had been sold to Universal Music Group for $100 million in 2003 and shut down around the time the film came out.
- A DVD of Just like Heaven appears briefly on screen in DreamWorks Animation's Flushed Away, shown alongside other live-action DreamWorks titles including Mouse Hunt and The Peacemaker.
- The film is adapted from the 1999 French novel If Only It Were True by Marc Levy, titled Et si c'était vrai in French.
- In 2006 Viacom, now Paramount Skydance, acquired Just like Heaven along with 58 other live-action DreamWorks films as part of a $1.6 billion deal for the studio's film library.
