Made in Heaven: Bienvenue au paradis

Original title: Made in Heaven

IMDb RATING

6.2/10

3.9K

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Made in Heaven: Bienvenue au paradis (1987)

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Comedy Fantasy Romance

After being dumped by his girlfriend, a boy runs away to California. But he ends up in heaven because he dies after trying to help a family from drowning in a river. In heaven he'll meet a b... Read allAfter being dumped by his girlfriend, a boy runs away to California. But he ends up in heaven because he dies after trying to help a family from drowning in a river. In heaven he'll meet a beautiful girl, who has never reincarnated before.After being dumped by his girlfriend, a boy runs away to California. But he ends up in heaven because he dies after trying to help a family from drowning in a river. In heaven he'll meet a beautiful girl, who has never reincarnated before.

Director
- Alan Rudolph
Writers
- Bruce A. Evans
- Raynold Gideon
Stars

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IMDb RATING

6.2/10

3.9K

YOUR RATING

Director
- Alan Rudolph
Writers
- Bruce A. Evans
- Raynold Gideon
Stars

See production info at IMDbPro

Awards
- 1 win & 2 nominations total

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Featured reviews

chasey_07450

Strikes a chord

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...

shmoore

Great movie

It is unfortunate that I am one of the few people I know who has seen this movie. I count it among my all time favorite films. It has a very different, fluid cinematic style, which I found very appealing. It is wonderfully written, acted, and directed, is very funny and in parts very touching. There are great cameo appearances by musicians Neil Young, Tom Petty and Ric Ocasek, as well as several actors who are oddly uncredited. "What Dreams May Come" was a disaster. "Made In Heaven" is a triumph. I can only hope it will be released on DVD.

Don-154

remember when u really cared about someone?

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.

5Robosharp

Not as good as I remembered 20 years ago.

Great concept, with at times a great atmosphere. But it's weird, nonsensical at times. With a more subtle plot and more care in execution it could've been a classic but Made in Heaven ends up a bit of a drag and a mess.

At its heart it's an atmospheric romance, which is where it's at its best. But then out of nowhere there will be a bizarre comic sketch which simply doesn't fit.

Really liked it first time I saw it. Not at all second time.

Margaret-6

A Beautiful Romance

This is my all-time favourite movie - I never tire of watching it and it's not just due to the lovely Tim Hutton!

A beautiful story of soul mates who meet and fall in love in heaven only to be parted and for them to find love (against all odds) again on Earth. Besides the wonderful leads this movie also features such diverse talents as Debra Winger, Ellen Barkin, Tom Petty, Neil Young, Matraca Berg etc. and the wonderful Neil Young penned song "We've Never Danced" sung by the talented Martha Davis.

A film not to miss.

Trivia
The role of Emmett is credited to "himself" in the end credits, but was actually played by Debra Winger, who was married to Timothy Hutton at the time of filming.

Goofs
When Timothy Hutton's character is touring a grade school in Heaven, the teacher (wearing the pith helmet) incorrectly tells his students that the Blue and Gold Macaw is from Suriname South 'Africa', when in fact Macaws are indigenous to Central and South America, and Suriname is in South America.

Quotes
Annie: You know what we've never done. We've never... danced. I'm going arent I?
Mike: Yes.
Annie: Don't be sad. Don't get sad Mike.
Mike: Why does it have to be you?
Annie: It's not sad. I'm going to be somebody's baby.

Crazy credits
And starring Emmett as himself

Connections
Featured in Siskel & Ebert & the Movies: Made in Heaven/Less Than Zero/Hello Again/Russkies/Hiding Out (1987)

Soundtracks
We've Never Danced
Words & Music by Neil Young
Performed by Martha Davis
Courtesy of Capitol Records
Produced by Richie Zito
©1987 Silver Fiddle Music and Marilor Music / ASCAP