Really Surprised!

Don't listen to the Hype. It's awful

Best movie of this year hands down!

Amazing worth wacthing. So good. Biased but well made with many good points.

I love this film. For those of us who have ever felt a little bit of "heaven" in our lives, this film feels very real. First, the settings on earth in what appear to be the 1950's seem quite real, for earth at the time. Then there's "heaven", shown to be a fantastical loving highly evolved place that exists only to inspire us here on earth to believe in ourselves, in something better, to have faith in a more positive future. Then our return from heaven to earth, with hope in our hearts and faith in our souls, ready to fight the fight we all must face while living our human lives. With what the heart feels in the form of pure love being the most profound and respected by those watching us from above. I highly recommend.

I have been enamored by this film since I was a child like many other fans caught the film one night on HBO. I have always considered myself a closet romantic and this film touched me on a level I didn't know existed. At the time I had no girlfriend and was very 15 years old but always considered my many to be an old soul. The characters were simple and pure, innocent in a word and I believe that is what perfect love is. I've always believed in love at first sight and experienced it later on in life and I never forgot this movie. I actually sought it out in the nineties before video stores ride themselves of VHS. I copied it and recently watched it with my girlfriend and she cried as Annie and Elmo bounced around unknowingly searching for each other. I was fortunate enough to get the soundtrack on tape at an old music store and created mp3's from it. We plan on using much of the music during our wedding.. The love Mike/Elmo and Annie/Ally find is the kind I want to carry me through the rest of my life and beyond.. I would like to own the DVD I hear there is an alternate ending.. I'm curious to see it..

For someone like Mike who's already in Heaven ( where there are lots of beautiful souls like Annie flying around), choosing to go back to earth IS A COMPLETELY WRONG CHOICE!This is taken the fact that even when Mike does finally met Annie, which he did, they could never remember their affair back in Heaven, WHAT'S THE POINT? Their big love affair in Heaven is gone for good, but if Mike chooses to stay in Heaven and wait for Annie to come back one day, there is still hope!( Particularly when there are so many things you can do while waiting for her.) At least Mike can realize and remember Annie as Annie ! Must love be so stupid and blind?Is this what the story wants to convey?

Alan Rudolph's MADE IN HEAVEN is a pleasant, sweet-natured romantic comedy with a twist; the lovers meet in Heaven, after our hero (Timothy Hutton) dies, rescuing a family from a car that plunges into a river. It may seem familiar territory to viewers of Robin Williams' drama, WHAT DREAMS MAY COME, in it's depiction of the afterlife and reincarnation, and the Albert Brooks' fantasy, DEFENDING YOUR LIFE, which also involves a romance in Heaven (in Brooks' case, with Meryl Streep). Without the budget of the Williams' film (which won an Oscar for it's visual effects), or Brooks' occasionally caustic humor about Divine Judgment, MADE IN HEAVEN is a simpler tale, weaving in a theme of predestination between lovers 'meant' to be together, which makes it a perfect 'date' movie.Hutton, dealing with being dead and in 'Paradise', appreciates the support of his Aunt Lisa (Maureen Stapleton), a long-dead budding painter in a heavenly Paris, but finds that he is lonely, and feels out of place. Then he meets heavenly guide Annie (Kelly McGillis), a new 'soul', who had never 'lived' on earth before, and the pair soon fall for each other, filling both his need for love and companionship, and her's, for an understanding of life, and passion. They marry, after being granted permission by 'The Boss', Emmett (an unbilled Debra Winger, who plays the male role very convincingly!)Everything seems perfectly heavenly...until Anne's number is called to be born on Earth. Despite Hutton's pleas that the pair were 'meant' to be together, Anne's destiny cannot be changed...but he does convince Emmett to allow him to be 'reborn' on Earth, insisting that the pair's love would bring them together. With the understanding that his new life may not return him to Heaven, Emmett grants him 30 years to connect with Annie...or else.In true soap opera fashion, the pair live wildly different lives, and have unfulfilling relationships with other partners, while each experiences flashbacks of the true love they had experienced in Heaven. Time is running out, however, and Hutton's 30th birthday is rapidly approaching, without meeting his soulmate... A modest film, with a great supporting cast (including Tim Daly, Don Murray, Mare Winningham, and Amanda Plummer), MADE IN HEAVEN's theme, that Love truly DOES conquer all, is irresistible.Grab YOUR soulmate, and enjoy it!