Reese Witherspoon continues to slough off all remnants of talent she exhibited early in her career (see “Freeway”).
“Just Like Heaven” is a wispy maudlin comedy that’s akin to watching a bowl of corn flakes turn soggy for an hour and a half.
Mark Ruffalo fails in his attempt to single-handedly elevate an abysmally bland story about an out of work landscape designer.
David (Ruffalo) has the misfortune of falling in love with the caught-in-transition ghost of a coma victim (Witherspoon) after he moves into her furnished San Francisco apartment.
Get it? — Furnished apartment.
“Just Like Heaven” perpetuates the Frisco curse that not one great movie has been made in the hilly city since Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo in 1958.
Rated PG-13. 95 mins.
