Heaven Can Wait (1978 film)

Heaven Can Wait is a 1978 American comedy film codirected by Warren Beatty and Buck Henry. It was the second film adaptation of Harry Segalls stageplay of the same name, being preceded by Here Comes Mr. Jordan 1941.

Joe Pendleton Warren Beatty, a backup quarterback for the American football team Los Angeles Rams, is looking forward to leading his team to the Super Bowl. While riding his bicycle through the older west side of tunnel one on KananDume road in Malibu, he collides with a truck. An overanxious guardian angel Buck Henry on his first assignment plucks Joe out of his body early, in the mistaken belief that his death is imminent, and Pendleton arrives in the afterlife.Once there, he refuses to believe that his time was up and, upon investigation, the mysterious Mr. Jordan James Mason discovers that he is right he was not destined to die until much later 1017 am on March 20, 2025, to be exact. Unfortunately, his body has already been cremated, so a new body must be found. After rejecting several possibilities of men who are about to die, Joe is finally persuaded to accept the body of a millionaire industrialist. Leo Farnsworth has just been drugged and drowned in his bathtub by his wife Julia Farnsworth Dyan Cannon and her lover, Farnsworths personal secretary, Tony Abbott Charles Grodin. ........

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