Heaven Can Wait

Heaven Can Wait (1978) is the fantasy comedy from Warren Beatty and Buck Henry, ready to watch online on iFILM. Los Angeles Rams quarterback Joe Pendleton dies in a road accident — except an overeager angel jumped the gun and pulled his soul out three decades too soon.

There's no putting Joe back: his body has already been cremated. So the celestial fixer Mr. Jordan has to find him a new one, settling on millionaire Leo Farnsworth, freshly poisoned by his own wife and her lover. Wearing Leo's face, Joe buys the football team he loves so he can suit up for the championship, and falls for Betty, an activist crusading against the very company he now owns. The would-be killers are baffled — the man they murdered keeps turning up alive.

Beatty produced, co-directed, and starred, and the film drew nine Academy Award nominations, winning for its art direction. It's a warm, featherlight comedy about a second chance, the kind Hollywood rarely pulls off anymore. Stream Heaven Can Wait (1978) online on iFILM.