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Release Date
• USA: Mar 22, 1991
DVD Release Date
• R1: Apr 3, 2001
MPAA Rating
PG
Running Time
1 hour, 52 minutes
Country USA
Studio Geffen Pictures, Warner Brothers
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Other Titles
• Defending Your Life
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Genre: Fantasy, Romance, Comedy, Love, Ghosts, Courtroom, Satire, Fantasy
Tagline: The first true story of what happens after you die.
Plot: Daniel Miller's got it all--great friends, a terrific job, and a brand-new BMW--that is, until he crashes the car into a bus as soon as he drives it off the lot. Daniel finds himself in Judgment City in the afterlife, where the newly dead have five days to defend the way they lived their lives in order to be allowed to move onward instead of going back to earth to live another one. As Daniel reviews his less-than-courageous life, he also enjoys the perks of Judgment City--the Past Lives Pavilion, all the food you can eat without any risk of weight gain--and Julia, the woman he's waited all his life to find. But if he can't prove his life wasn't governed by fear, Daniel has to go back--and Julia seems a shoo-in to move onward. This highly original, touching comedy stars Albert Brooks as Daniel Miller and Meryl Streep as Julia, with hilarious supporting performances by Rip Torn as Daniel's defender, Lee Grant as his prosecutor, and Buck Henry as a taciturn substitute lawyer.
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Albert Brooks
Saturday Night Live, Saturday Night Live, Saturday Night Live |
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| Meryl Streep
Adaptation., The Deer Hunter, Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events |
 | Rip Torn
Men in Black, The Insider, Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story |
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The Producers, Recording 'The Producers': A Musical Romp with Mel Brooks | Julie Cobb
Salem's Lot, Dr. Jekyll and Ms. Hyde, Lisa | |
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