ihavebeenfloated

Some part of me is a softie for a well acted, well made chick flick. In particular, I am a major softie for Mark Ruffalo. I think it’s the nice guy vulnerability he manages to bring to the role. Every time he is rejected there is a look in his eyes that I indentify with so heavily that I can’t shrug it off. Not to mention the fact that I’ve seen him hit home runs in other acting roles.

Reese Witherspoon on the other hand made my blood curdle for the last few years before seeing Walk The Line. Now I see her as a woman, instead of the obnoxious Election-era girl that I always have. That helped a lot in enjoying this movie.

Just Like Heaven made me laugh, and it made me cry. The story is great, as far as I’m concerned, with David Abbott (Ruffalo) just getting out of a heavy break up (how heavy? heavy) and trying to find a new place to live. A supernatural force draws him to one apartment in particular, still furnished with the last tenent’s things (whose disappearence is a little unclear), and he decides to live there based upon the comfort of the couch. Shortly after moving in, Elizabeth (Reese) appears as if out of thin air claiming she lives there, though she can’t really remember anything about herself.

Of course there is something a little more airy about Elizabeth and it’s not just her wonderfully sculpted hairdo. I think that was the gayest thing I have ever said.

David decides to help Elizabeth find out who she was, because the only person that can see her is, of course, him. Why? Well, that’s one of the other mysteries of this movie!

As if you couldn’t tell, I can’t stop thinking about this movie. It’s been going on four or five days now and I cannot get it out of my head. I was deeply touched by this film on some level that I can’t explain. I’m disappointed that I didn’t see it earlier so I could trumpet its triumph sooner, because now it is completely out of most theaters.

I’m sure it’ll be just as effective on DVD, though. Check it out. Support Ruffalo’s acting career.