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Just Like Heaven is an American romantic comedy fantasy film released on September 16, 2005, in the United States and Canada. Set in San Francisco, it was directed by Mark Waters, starring Reese Witherspoon, Mark Ruffalo, and Jon Heder. It is based on the novel If Only It Were True (Et si c'était vrai...) by Marc Levy. Steven Spielberg obtained the rights to produce the film out of the book.
Elizabeth Masterson (Witherspoon), a young emergency medicine physician whose work is her whole life, is in a serious car accident while on her way to a blind date. Three months later, David Abbott (Ruffalo), a landscape architect recovering from the sudden death of his wife, moves into the apartment that had been Elizabeth's, after 'discovering' it in what seems to be a 'fateful' happenstance.
Elizabeth's spirit begins to appear to David in the apartment with ghostly properties and abilities that make it clear that something is not right. She can suddenly appear and disappear, walk or move through walls and objects, and once takes over his actions. When they meet, they are both surprised, as Elizabeth is still unaware of her recent history and refuses to think she is dead. David tries to have her spirit exorcised from the apartment, but to no avail. Since only David can see and hear her, others think that he is hallucinating and talking to himself.
"well show me, show me, show me how you do that trick
the one that makes me scream," she said
"the one that makes me laugh," she said,
and threw her arms around my head
"well show me how you do it
and i promise you, i promise that
i'll run away with you,
i'll run away with you"
we're spinning on that dizzy air
i kiss your face, and kiss your hair
i dreamed of all the different ways
i have to let her know
and scream, "why are you so far away?"
she said, "won't you ever know that i'm in love with you,
yeah, i'm in love with you."
for you, that's soft and lonely
you, lost and only
you, strange as angels dancing in the deepest ocean
existing in the world, you're just like a dream
you're just like a dream
will daylight whip me into shape?
i must have been asleep for days
and moving lips can breathe a name
i opened up my eyes
and found myself alone, alone
alone up on the ranges
IT STOLE THE ONLY GIRL I LOVE
and drowned her deep inside of me
you, that's lost and only
you, soft and lonely