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Just like Heaven

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Just Like Heaven is a supernatural romantic comedy that's not too taxing on the brain.

Reese Witherspoon - who is best known for her sorority queen role in Legally Blonde (2001) - is the workaholic physician Elizabeth, who is left in a coma after a car accident.

Her spirit remains in her classy apartment, which is rented to an alcoholic, David (Mark Ruffalo), who has lost interest in life and work since the death of his wife.

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Elizabeth's spirit orders David to leave the apartment, but David responds by hiring ghostbusters to get rid of her.

But their mutual dislike gradually gives way to love after they realise what they are missing in life.

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There are few twists and turns in this story adapted from the novel If Only It Were True by Marc Levy.

Fortunately, there are plenty of comedic moments, particularly the scene in which David nervously acts on the instructions issued by the invisible Elizabeth to save a man in a restaurant.

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