Memorable, crazy movie

How sad is this?

I like movies that are aware of what they are selling... without [any] greater aspirations than to make people laugh and that's it.

Tells a fascinating and unsettling true story, and does so well, without pretending to have all the answers.

This movie speaks to those with that ever lingering feeling that there's one person meant for all of us, that we've yet to find. "Heaven is where the future is born". I've seen this movie so many times, yet I see it with new eyes each time I watch it again. It still makes me want to cry in a multitude of scenes. When his mother from the previous life talks about being afraid, is just one of them. My heart attached to this movie instantly and has been a secret of mine I haven't been able to share...maybe someday with the right person.I agree completely with this reviewer: Strikes a chord chasey_0745011 February 2001 Watching this movie strikes a chord like no other movie I have ever seen. I first saw it several years ago, and it gripped me from the top of my head to the bottom of my toes. I cried like a baby while viewing this movie... not because it made me sad, but because it "evoked a memory of an intangible experience I am not certain I have had yet".I continue to be challenged by the possibility this movie represents... Whenever I see this movie playing on cable, I try to flick off it... but am inexorably drawn to it... and must watch it in its entirety.Thats just the way it is...

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..

Love is absurd. Heaven is absurd. A movie about love and heaven may also be absurd or render the absurdity of love and heaven as palpable, revealing and refreshing. This movie truncates two lifetimes into two hours and leaves you with the sense that, for at least some of us, love is all that more powerful when we allow for the supernatural, the absurd components, to mix with biology. The fascinating consideration is that the woman was made (four-letter word for conceived) in Heaven and only subsequently was earth-bound. The existentialism is indeed fascinating in spite of the temporal truncation. As the poet Michael Biscardi has written, "There are some truths that serve where facts do not."

A romantic movie about how someone can fall in love on first sight. What I like about this movie is its simplicity. They meet and they fall in love but as all relationships go, they lose each other. Unfortunately life is the reason. Elmo Barnett [Tim Hutton] must find his true love Ally Chandler [Kelly mcgillis] in life and he only has till his 30th birthday to do so. Kelly Mcgillis plays an emotional love sick adult that holds onto love that doesn't exist but in her mind it does. For a low cost movie I found it refreshing and emotionally strong.