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Heart and Souls
Four casualties of a bus accident are condemned, for an indefinite period and unknown reasons, to keep company with the newborn whose arrival on earth coincides with their departure: they're invisible and inaudible to everyone but him, and they disappear from him as well when he reaches the age of seven. Twenty-some years later a celestial messenger belatedly explains the situation to them, and they make themselves visible again -- an altogether unwieldy premise which demands, among other things, that Robert Downey, Jr., as the now grown babe, impersonate each of his guardians in turn. His Kyra Sedgwick is generalized swish, and his Tom Sizemore is generalized j.d., and his Charles Grodin is unrecognizable, but his Alfre Woodard is his -- and the movie's -- comic high point. On her own, Woodard produces some genuine emotion. Directed by Ron Underwood. 1993.
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MPAA Rating: PG
