Chances Are
Louie's love for his pregnant wife is interrupted when a car accident sends him to heaven. Louie is reincarnated as Alex Finch, and twenty years later, fate brings Alex and Louie's daughter, Miranda, together.
5 March 1922, Dallas, Texas, USA
16 September 1948, Oregon City, Oregon, USA
July 9, 1927 in Brooklyn, New York, USA
14 March 1918, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
25 September 1948, Rochester, New York, USA
4 April 1965, Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA
26 June 1934, Greifswald, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany
26 August 1907, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
12 December 1943, Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA
14 June 1944, Buffalo, New York, USA
29 November 1916, Los Angeles, California, USA
9 July 1927, Brooklyn, New York, USA
13 February 1946, Los Angeles, California, USA
31 March 1957, San Mateo, California, USA
18 February 1950, Memphis, Tennessee, USA
20 April 1941, Los Angeles, California, USA
11 September 1917, Macon, Missouri, USA
17 February 1919, Chicago, Illinois, USA
6 November 1949, Houston, Texas, USA
August 18, 2012
This whimsical fantasy-comedy of reincarnation is well acted by Robert Downey Jr.
February 27, 2008
A potentially charming premise yields only a handful of chuckles.
January 01, 2000
O'Neal's performance, on the other hand, could incite angels to throw tomatoes from heaven.
February 27, 2008
Among the best of the body-switch films that cluttered movie screens in the late 1980s.
May 05, 2014
As a featherweight trifle rooted in young death, an endless mourning process, and quasi-incestuous stirrings, the film suffers from jarring tonal shifts on a continual basis.
February 27, 2008
A lot of fun.
June 24, 2006
This went direct to video in Britain, but as latter-day Hollywood romantic comedies go, it has a bit more style than you might expect.
April 14, 2014
[Blu-ray Review] Worthy of being rediscovered by fans of any of the actors or '80s comfort-food movie enthusiasts in general, "Chances Are" earns a recommendation.
August 10, 2004
Dull romantic comedy
January 01, 2000
As love interests go, Shepherd and Downey are about as hot as Ike and Mamie Eisenhower, though the apoplectic Downey does have his comedic moments.
August 28, 2004
Chances Are is an entertaining romantic comedy.
May 20, 2003
Emile Ardolino, who directed Dirty Dancing, leaves the film hovering halfway between dewy romance and bedroom farce, but he displays little of the sharpness or comic timing needed for either one.
