A couple who live on different sides of the divide of life and death discover just how many boundaries love can cross in this omantic comic fantasy. Elizabeth (Reese Witherspoon) is a hardworking and dedicated medical resident who, after 20 hours on duty, is heading home when she falls asleep at the wheel of her car and is involved in a fatal auto accident. Several weeks later, a man named David (Mark Ruffalo) takes over the lease on Elizabeths apartment, but he discovers that she hasnt quite vacated the building. Elizabeths body may be dead, but her spirit is still quite lively, and her ghost is insisting that the apartment is still hers...and that she wants him to move out. David brings in Darryl (Jon Heder), an eccentric man who claims to have psychic powers, to help sweep Elizabeths spirit out of the apartment, but she refuses to budge, certain that she cant be completely dead, despite all evidence to the contrary. As Elizabeth and David try to share the flat, they discover that their differences arent as great as they once imagined, and they become attracted to one another. But will Elizabeths spirit stay in the land of the living long enough for their romance to go somewhere? Just Like Heaven marked Jon Heders first feature film role after his breakthrough appearance in the independent hit Napoleon Dynamite. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide