Devin Brown
“Just like Heaven” is a true-to-form “chick flick” starring Mark Ruffalo and Reese Witherspoon.
The story takes place in San Francisco and as predictable as it sounds, a young depressed landscaping architect named David (Ruffalo) moves into a “diamond in the ruff” apartment with one catch; the previous tenant Elizabeth (Witherspoon) refuses to move on.
David wants nothing to do with the outside world and certainly does not want a controlling roommate who claims the apartment is hers, appears when his slob like habits make her upset and disappears just as easily by walking through a wall.
David thinks she is just a figment of his imagination until she freaks out when she realizes that she is walking through things.
As they try to discover what happened to her, as expected, they fall in love. Toward the end of the movie half of the audience is in tears while the other has their eyes fixated attentively, watching and hoping the two get together.
“Just Like Heaven” is a film full of clich√©s, but still a very watchable. Not to mention the hilarious performance by Jon Heder of “Napoleon Dynamite” as Darryl, a psychic who guides Elizabeth and David to ask the right questions.
As corny as it sounds, with a few plot points this movie is definitely on my Top Ten list. Not since scenes in the movie “Ghost” with Patrick Swayze and Whoopie Goldberg have I laughed so loud at a “dead person.”
“The Greatest Game Ever Played” is a story of courage, passion and one of the greatest unknown American sports heroes of all time.
Francis Ouimet (Shia LaBeouf) shocked the golf world during the 1913 US Open, at his side was a 10-Year-Old caddie, as he played and defeated his hero, British champion Harry Vardon (Stephen Dillane).
An impossible match-up (A David Verses Goliath), and theirs would be the greatest game the sport had ever witnessed.
Caught between the worlds of hardship he knew and the life of privilege he only dreamed of, Ouimet needed to show the world his unshakable will and his ability to make to the tournament.
Eddie Lowery (Josh Flitter) is the Pint-Sized caddie who helps Ouimet find his own way through the fairways and onto victory.
Ouimet’s biggest barrier was his father (Elias Koteas) who believed that his son’s place in the world had nothing to do with playing a game. This is the true story of a young man who came from nothing, was told he was nothing and went on to be the greatest unsung American hero of 1913.
Movie goers leave the theater with a smile and their heads held high, the film bestows a sense that dreams do come true and you can do anything.
“The Greatest Game Ever Played” is game worth watching more than once.