Heaven Can Wait

6.6

United States Of America

Sci-Fantasy Comedy Romance

101 min

1978

William Sylvester Will Hare Lee Weaver Roger Bowen Keene Curtis Morgan Farley William Bogert Joel Marston Earl Montgomery Peter Tomarken Richard O'Brien Lisa Blake Richards Deacon Jones Paul D'Amato Robert Fortier Allan Graf Bryant Gumbel Chick Hearn Elliott Reid Byron Webster Arthur Malet Julie Christie James Mason Jack Warden Charles Grodin Dyan Cannon Buck Henry Vincent Gardenia Joseph Maher Hamilton Camp Warren Beatty Stephanie Faracy Larry Block Frank Campanella Bill Sorrells Dick Enberg Dolph Sweet R.G. Armstrong Ed Peck John Randolph

Joe Pendleton is a quarterback preparing to lead his team to the superbowl when he is almost killed in an accident. An overanxious angel plucks him to heaven only to discover that he wasn't ready to die, and that his body has been cremated. A new body must be found, and that of a recently-murdered millionaire is chosen. His wife and accountant—the murderers—are confused by this development, as he buys the L.A. Rams in order to once again quarterback them into the Superbowl.