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Shelly Long has proved herself to be very versatile in comedy. While this is not a complicated movie -- nor one of the best acted, it is one of the best acted that Shelly Long has done. The story is simple, but one that I'm sure most people have dreamed about. "What would happen to my family if I no longer 'existed'." A perfect world is not available in life -- or death, but on the screen it works. Even though it won no awards for acting, I find that it is one of the most entertaining movies I have seen -- one that needs to be added to a personal library, along with one of Shelly Long's funniest movies to be seen: Troop Beverly Hills.

Lucy Chadman (Shelley Long) is a former-teacher Long Island housewife uncomfortable with the high class parties required by her ambitious Manhattan surgeon Jason (Corbin Bernsen) looking to be chief of plastic surgery at the Knickerbocker. Her gold-digging college friend Kim Lacey (Sela Ward) is three-times-married and looking for a fourth. Her son Danny is a passionate chef. Her sister Zelda (Judith Ivey) is an odd character dabbling in witchcraft. Lucy chokes to death on a South Korean chicken ball from Zelda. Exactly one year later, Zelda uses a spellbook to bring back Lucy. She finds the world has changed. Danny didn't go to Columbia and instead, opened his own restaurant. Jason married Kim and sold the house. She returns to the Knickerbocker ER to talk to Dr. Kevin Scanlon (Gabriel Byrne) who treated her a year ago. Unbeknownst to her, she needs to find true love by the next full moon.

This is not that funny. Shelley Long's pratfalls are awkward and unfunny. The first half of the story is good. The romance takes a long time to start. Gabriel Byrne doesn't show up until the end of the first act and even later for him to fully be a character. The second half of the story is clunky after the world discovers her return from the dead. This is simply not funny enough and I put most of that on writer Susan Isaacs. Director Frank Perry does a workmanlike job but his comedic takes are not laugh worthy either. The romance is fine and I kinda like the wacky sister.

Hello Again isn't getting the recognition it deserves.It's a funny relaxing movie that does indeed leave you sighing with contentment.It always does for me. It's about a housewife, Lucy Chadman married to an upscale doctor and is unhappy with her present career and comes to an untimely end while eating a south korean chicken ball. Her wacky sister Zelda dabbles in magic and manages to bring her back to life. Now Lucy must piece back her life with help from her handsome doctor and find true love within the next full moon or she has to go back. The movie is memorable because of the quirky story , Gabriel Byrne's admiring eyes for Lucy and the nonstop comedy.

Don't listen to most of the reviews, this movie is definitely worth watching!

my rating: 10/10!

The stage curtains open ...

I've been catching up on films from the years of my youth that I never got to see. Tonight's viewing was the 1987 comedy, "Hello Again", starring Shelley Long in the starring role. Shelley Long was in her prime and probably at the height of her career during that time, so this movie poster was a fairly common one to see in the video rental stores. It only took me 38 years to see it - and unfortunately, the wait was not worth it.

The story is about Lucy Chadman (Long), the accident prone and clumsy wife of a very successful plastic surgeon, who is having a hard time finding her own identity in a world where she does not belong. She has a sister who is into the occult, and when Lucy chokes on a meatball and dies, her sister brings her back from the dead exactly one year later. She finds the world has changed, her husband has moved on to another marriage, her son has gotten married as well, and she is dealing with the idea that she really was dead, though she can't believe it at first. With the help of another doctor, she finds a way to accept and move forward with her 2nd chance at life.

So yeah ... she is basically resurrected. On the surface, this film is polished and with a solid saxophone featured 80's soundtrack. Shelley Long is her usual charming and inviting self, and the movie had all the earmarks of a comedy. The only problem is that it really isn't that funny. It should've billed as more of a drama, but even on that level, it doesn't score either. Simmering underneath is an uneasy "weird" and "unnatural" feel to it that permeates every scene. She died. This isn't like the film "Chances Are" where he was reincarnated as another person. She comes back as herself, like nothing happened.

I was expecting there to be some sort of morality tale to this, a bittersweet ending where she had to accept the reality of her situation. No ... nothing like that at all. This one just didn't sit well with me. Shelley Long was fun to watch, but as a story, it doesn't work. And the ending was just too cute and tied up for me. I wouldn't recommend this movie. It was just "okay". Not good, not bad ... but not really worth the time spent to watch it either. Highly forgettable.

Accident-prone Long Island housewife Shelley Long (as Lucy) chokes to death on a South Korean chicken-ball, then comes back to life after a spell cast by her kooky sister Judith Ivey (as Zelda). To avoid being sent back to her grave, Ms. Long must find true love with either her doctor Gabriel Byrne (as Kevin Scanlon) or widowed husband Corbin Bernsen (as Jason Chadman). "Hello Again" appears to be an update of "My Favorite Wife (1940) and "Move Over, Darling" (1963). For added fun, Long's "Lucy" is given some physical comedy which recalls the famous comedienne. Lucille Ball lost her dress in "Yours, Mine and Ours" (1968) and had several eating mishaps like those herein, but she wasn't clumsy. Long and director Frank Perry can't quite get the staging and situation to make for maximum laughter.

**** Hello Again (11/6/87) Frank Perry ~ Shelley Long, Judith Ivey, Gabriel Byrne, Corbin Bernsen

I had never actually heard about this 1987 fantasy comedy titled "Hello Again" from writer Susan Isaacs and director Frank Perry. But having loved watching "Cheers" and always found Shelley Long to be an enjoyable performer back in the day, then of course I opted to sit down and watch "Hello Again" here in 2022, as I had the opportunity.

The storyline was adequate, however, I must admit that the movie as a whole was somewhat bland and mediocre. It wasn't a particularly thrilling movie, and the comedy in the movie was far in between. So I will say that I wasn't overly entertained by this 1987 movie. Sure, it was watchable for what it turned out to be, however I had not been missing out on a cinematic gem here.

The acting performances in the movie were fair enough. The movie actually has a good cast ensemble, with the likes of Shelley Long, Judith Ivey, Gabriel Byrne, Sela Ward and Corbin Bernsen. So yeah, you have a handful of very familiar 1980s stars here.

While I managed to sit through "Hello Again" in its entire 96 minutes, I was only mildly entertained by it. However, I doubt that I will ever return to watch this movie a second time.

My rating of "Hello Again" lands on a five out of ten stars.

If you like Shelley Long and enjoy her great acting skills, you will enjoy the role she plays in this film. Shelly Long,(Lucy Chadman),"The Adventures of Ragtime",'98, is married to a doctor who performs plastic surgery and is very content with Lucy's slap stick ways of doing things. Lucy attends fancy parties with a bunch of stuffed shirts and manages to destroy her dress and the entire dinner party. There is a great deal of this comedy through out the entire picture. Judith Ivey,(Zelda),"What Alice Found",'03, plays Lucy's sister and owns a book store in Manhattan and at the same time deals with the Spiritual World and manages to perform an unusual act of Witch Craft! This is a very funny picture and if you like COMEDY, this is the film for YOU!

Director Frank Perry, who in the early 1970s showed some honest talent and an abundance of visual wit, channels the same cartoony approach to 'life' here as he did with his "Compromising Positions"...and the affects are equally as meager. Shelley Long dies but comes back, however there's nothing relatably human about Long's approach to acting. Yes, she's playing a klutzy ditz with a heart of gold, but Long has no shadings, and when she tries for sincerity it rings hollow (even her overly-clear speaking voice sounds as if it's coming from an echo chamber and not a person). I liked Long in the underrated "Irreconcilable Differences", where she really had a chance to carve out a character beyond her snippy "Cheers" persona. It's not that she's a bad actress, there just doesn't seem to be a soul in that body. Pert and perky, she's utterly one-dimensional, pink-and-blonde-and-bland. Who cares if she returns from the dead? *1/2 from ****

There is a lot in this movie that is fun to watch, fresh, charming, original and could not have been made with any other cast.

Shelley Long won me over with this film. I was never a big Cheers fan but this made me wake up and take notice of her. She has been underutilized in Hollywood because she isn't outrageous...but that's everyone's loss.

Judith Ivey is another great talent with which Hollywood has no idea what to do. Her charm and kookiness in this film lets her shine.

The rest of the cast has a great deal of chemistry and is cast well for their broad characteristics.

Please don't listen to others - - there are hundreds of other movies that deserve to be reviled and vilified more than this. Sure it's predictable -- How many movies aren't???

The concept is enjoyable and I predict that some bimbo-star of the future will remake this and it will be fabulously popular. People will flock to see it just because of the bimbo and then finally THIS movie will have had its vindication and will be eulogized -- pardon the pun.

Just see it. It's fun.

I don't know why so many people have slammed this movie in the comments section. I have seen this film numerous times and find it hilarious and Shelley Long adorable. No, this is not a film that requires a lot of deep thinking and analyzing, but it's not supposed to be. It's a light-hearted, romantic comedy that achieves its goal -- it entertains you, makes you laugh and touches your heart. It need not try to do anymore than that. Shelley Long, Judith Ivey, Gabriel Byrn and Sela Ward all give great performances, as does the rest of the supporting cast.

I must admit I am a fan of Shelley Long. I believe she's a truly talented comedy actress. However, not even her greatest endeavours could help save this truly awful movie. Don't get me wrong, it has some strong points, but these are generally swamped by poor acting, poor script and poor direction. Long's incessant clumsiness was both unfunny and irrelevant. The script seemed to be a minefield of cliches and dull one-liners. The direction as a result appears dramatically effected by this, but surely could have improved some of the scenes. The plot also hovers between scientific miracle and occult fantasy, when perhaps one approach would have sufficed. Long's trickery of her friend near the end, although cleverly "acted", was lame and contrived. I'm so disappointed to write this. Please, please, please (to the producers) don't ever make a movie like this again. And finally....how much money did it lose?

Tripe of this sort never ceases to amaze me. What's worse, though, is the presence of good actors such as Gabriel Byrne. I hope that everyone was paid well for this film because I don't think they were doing it for artistic acclaim!

Shelley Long has no business on the big screen...just as she had no business on television - and THAT'S saying something considering the sub-par acting that usually goes on in the world of TV actors.

I have no problem with silly movies and cute story lines. But when a film is so obviously leading in one way with characters drawn with the largest strokes...it becomes a cartoon...and not a very funny one at that.

A saccharine little comedy, with ooey-gooey sweetness dripping from it's pores, about how Long returns from the dead and finds life a mess.

The film sets her up as a plain-Jane housewife, with a cardboard doctor of a husband, and a son ready for college. Feeling at a loss of what to do with the rest of her days, she does the most interesting thing she can: she dies. Fortunately, her nutcase sister is a pseudo-witch doctor who "chants" her back to life. Only for Long to be hounded by the media and jilted by her husband. It's all handled so tamely, so TV-movie-like that it could qualify for MST3K showings.

Hard up for laughs, Long is written as a klutz, who trips, falls, spills, slides, and even at one point, undresses herself while trying to walk stairs. Her new love interest is a lifeless doctor who smiles at her maybe twice in the film, yet somehow falls for her. Throw in a melodramatic, over-baked finish, and you have a real eye roller. But what might be the clincher are just some of the shots used. Director Perry has people walking arm in arm and laughing gleefully, while entering rooms, or adjourning from others. Or they jack up the saxophone score on Long's "me so cute" smile, and even add a head tilt for Byrne's predictable, "I love you. " The ultimate pile of sugar is during the end credits, as a photo album is thumbed through. Pictures of all three lead couples, getting married, getting pregnant, and then posing with their babies. And Long is even blessed with twins! Then a male hand puts his on a female hand oh so sweetly as they look at the pictures. Please. Talk about redefining "And they lived happily ever after".

There is one main reason why "Hello again" isn't quite as good as it could be. It's Shelly Long's character herself. Don't get me wrong, I like Shelly Long (even though I keep reading reviews of people who keep saying how they can't stand her). It's more of the type of character the writers made her to be in this film. Shelly Long herself I think is a pleasant, nice looking woman in an innocent kind of way. And I liked her in "Cheers" and as Tom Hank's wife in "The money pit". The issue with her here is that she is very clumsy with two left feet. The writers must have thought that making her that way would be a good joke for the movie. They were wrong. I think it a distraction. The idea itself of bringing back someone from the dead is an interesting enough topic for me without the distraction of making her a klutz. Lucy's (Shelly's) spiritual sister, Zelda who runs her own supernateraul shop is the one who performs a spell to bring her back. Zelda is a neat, quirky character in this film and I liked her. Anyway, when Lucy returns, she has to, of course go through the whole ordeal of immensely surprising everyone in her life from before her death that she has returned, and dealing with their understandably intense reactions with such a thing occurring. After all, this sort of thing just doesn't happen every day. She finds out how her husband Richard has now hooked up now Kim, a beautiful flashy woman who Lucy was friends with before but now, after the whole ordeal, the two women don't like each other so much anymore. After all, Kim is now obviously scared that Lucy will go back to Richard since before her death, they never officially divorced. And Lucy, understandable, is not comfortable with seeing Kim romantically hooked up with her husband. Lucy also meets a doctor, Peter while going to the hospital to find out how she died. Peter obviously thinks she's crazy at first ("if you don't take a walk, I'm gonna call security"), but after convincing from Lucy saying things only the "real" Lucy wouldve known, and Peter conducting a series of tests, he's astounded to find out that this woman who died one year earlier, is really the same woman come back. And Lucy dying from choking on a South Korean chicken ball is a good touch. Lucy also made a pretty funny joke about the chicken ball before she choked, "boy, I'd like to see the rest of the chicken". The rest of the movie I won't spoil by writing here. I'll just say that there are definitely some good bits but also a few dumb bits. The dumb bits are mostly from what I mentioned before about Lucy's clumsiness. The hospital executive was also sort of an offbeat character, this weird looking and talking short bald man. However, this is a nice, interesting, quirky little picture to enjoy on a Saturday night while eating pizza.

Shelley Long... ugh!!! The female Steve Guttenberg of the 1980's. Hello Again is merely playing on the ideas that were already washed up in the 1930's screwball comedies, but had least had clever writers and fresh ideas. This is like watching the rejected pages for "Blithe Spirit" or "Move Over, Darling". Corbin Bernsen is just a smarmier Guttenberg.

What is it about these predictable, knee jerk comedies that makes us like them? In this case it must be that it's nostalgic. Shelly Long does a decent acting job with what she's got to work with but some jokes are just plain bad, yet you smile. It has a pretty good story line, somewhat original for it's time. The word, corny describes this film best. If you're an 80's kid, then I say watch this film. If you are under 30 years old...you won't like it !

I'm surprised at the other summary of this movie. I, too, have seen it several times and have always found it fairly well acted and written and just a good bit of fun in general.

Some of us LIKE movies with a happy ending! Kick back and enjoy this one.

Whatever the movies which the lovely and charming Shelley Long did I like, she is sexy and funny, their comedies had something else, in those so charismatic characters, due she never made an evil woman, quite often clumsy and even naïve, on "Hello Again" what a hell happened that I've never seen it before is widely scrumptious about a mid-class teacher, wife and mother Lucy Chadman (Shelley Long) where is marriage is no longer fulfilling, his odd husband Jason (Bernsen) is a successful plastic surgeon is in professional growth of which his wife doesn't fits anymore on the snooty New York's high society, she accidently gonna dies, her older sister the mystic Zelda (Judith Ivey) strongest adept of the spiritualism through an old book make a spell brings Lucy to life again, even past one year after her death, thus the mess is done, now Lucy faces how ironic can be the life, when she saw her best friend married with her husband, also he changes his old behavior due his new position as head of surgery at new wing of hospital, the comedy has great timing, blending many elements as tragicomic setting, although the outcome wasn't enough persuasive!!

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First watch: 1997 / How many: 2 / Source: TV-DVD / Rating: 7

i love this film it totally brings me back to being 10 again, it was just wacky enough to hold my attention, fair enough it doesn't match up to todays standard of movie but its a heart warming story that i love to watch again and again. Shelly plays the total scatter brain that i expect of her and her sister Zelda soon enough becomes the voice of reason. Danny plays the ever doting son and i have to say was a hunk in the 80s for me. i totally recommend this film to anyone with a weird sense of humour, for goodness sake she chokes on a chicken ball. My favourite part is at the end when she pretends to be possessed and talks about the cowboy boots that cracked me up, watch you'll see what i mean. Its a classic family film that you'll really enjoy.

Hello Again's best characters are Shelley Long and the actress who plays her sister. It offers an unique storyline that isn't beat to death in the movies. The film also provides an array of kooky characters,such as Shelley Long's sister, daugther-in-law, and brother-in-law. As usual Shelley's physical comedy makes you chuckle, even if it is more subtle in this flick. The comedy is off-sets by watching Shelley's struggle through this particular predicament, and although at times you empathisize with her, the movie never brings you down. It generally makes you chuckle and provides a feel-good atmosphere. The combination makes this one of my favorite comedy's of its era. It's a must see.