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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.
6 November 1949, Houston, Texas, USA
26 June 1934, Greifswald, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany
28 June 1966, New York City, New York, USA
13 February 1946, Los Angeles, California, USA
24 June 1932, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
July 9, 1927 in Brooklyn, New York, USA
25 September 1948, Rochester, New York, USA
August 10, 2004
Dull romantic comedy
January 01, 2000
O'Neal's performance, on the other hand, could incite angels to throw tomatoes from heaven.
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.
August 28, 2004
Chances Are is an entertaining romantic comedy.
August 18, 2012
This whimsical fantasy-comedy of reincarnation is well acted by Robert Downey Jr.
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.
February 27, 2008
A potentially charming premise yields only a handful of chuckles.
February 27, 2008
Among the best of the body-switch films that cluttered movie screens in the late 1980s.
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.
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.
February 27, 2008
A lot of fun.
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.