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Chances Are is a american film of genre Science fiction directed by Emile Ardolino released in USA on 10 march 1989 with Robert Downey Jr.
Chances Are (1989)
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Add to a movie listReleased in USA 10 march 1989
Length 1h48
Directed by Emile Ardolino
OriginUSA
Themes Films about religion
Rating65%
Chances Are is a 1989 romantic comedy film directed by Emile Ardolino and starring Cybill Shepherd, Robert Downey, Jr., Ryan O'Neal, and Mary Stuart Masterson. The original music score was composed by Maurice Jarre.
Synopsis
Young D.A. Louie Jeffries is hit by a car and dies in 1964, but manages to slip by the pearly gates and is instantly reborn. In 1987, 23 years later, his widow Corinne still misses him, ignoring the frustrated devotion of his best friend Phillip Train, who has pretty much raised his only daughter Miranda as his own. Miranda, while a student at Yale University meets Alex Finch, who works in the library but is about to graduate. After graduation, Alex schemes his way into the office of newspaper editor Ben Bradlee, at which time he meets Phillip, a journalist at Bradlee's newspaper. When Phillip brings Alex to meet the Jeffries family, Alex quickly realizes he is in fact Corinne's dead husband reborn.Actors
Robert Downey Jr.
(Alex Finch)
Cybill Shepherd
(Corinne Jeffries)
Ryan O'Neal
(Philip Train)
Mary Stuart Masterson
(Miranda Jeffries)
Christopher McDonald
(Louie Jeffries)
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