The Five People You Meet in Heaven (2004): On his 83rd birthday, Eddie, a war vet and a maintenance worker at the Ruby Pier amusement park, dies while trying to save a girl who is sitting under a falling ride. When he awakens in the afterlife, he encounters five people with ties to his corporeal existence who help him understand the meaning of his life. (7.2)
Director: Lloyd Kramer
Stars: Jon Voight, Ellen Burstyn and Jeff Daniels
Another movie I've seen recently about how death is not really the end. Of course, it is a sentimental story about looking back at your life, tying up the loose ends, saying things you couldn't say when alive, looking up those whose lives you've touched, etc. The place really isn't the heaven, but implied you get to pick your own place. Then again, there's a basic flaw in the story in that those five had to wait for Eddie a long time ... was it "heaven" for them all that time? Kind of liked it, but then, it didn't really give me a "life lesson" I already didn't know. My Rating: 6.0
