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this one is definitely from the 80's back when everyone was trying to make robert downey jr. 'happen'. it didnt quite work until about 25 years later, but you can see in this movie why he was given so many second chances. the film is pretty ridiculous, its about a happily married guy who dies and in heaven is sent back to earth (that whole reincarnation thing was big in movies back then i guess...) but they forgot to wipe his memories. twenty years later the reborn guy goes to meet the family of a girl he likes and just met. it turns out that the girl's mom is his wife from his last life! (kinda creepy that he made out with his own daughter, huh?) the wife, played by sybil shepherd has never moved on from her husband's death and now this kid is claiming to be him! she has a really hard time with it, as one would expect, and the family tries to deal with where to go from there. downey is good as the boy torn between what he knows and what he seems to remember, and they do a pretty good job of showing that conflict in both he and shepherd. there are a few funny bits to it and at times its even a little touching as we see the hope of a woman who never let go of the love she had that was taken away so suddenly.