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ne of the more underrated movies of the 1980s, "Hello Again" is an excellent fantasy that poses an important question: If you had died and were given a second chance at life, what would you do with it?
The story is about Lucy Chadman (Long), a housewife, a daycare center volunteer and a big-time klutz. She's married to a major plastic surgeon named Jason (Bernsen). Together with their aspiring-to-be-a-chef son Danny (Fields), they live happily in a house on Long Island. Jason is longing for something more, though. That "something more" is a mutual friend from college named Kim Lacey (Ward), a clothing-designing golddigger. Constantly encountering each other at society parties and benefits, there's a rivalry for Jason's affections that will be waged in life... and death.
Death, you say? Well, let me explain. Some people have a twisted sister... Lucy has a mystic sister. Her name is Zelda (Ivey). A very spiritual being, she's also very much a kook. She'll interrupt a party to notice a guest that swatted a fly, and then berate him with talk of transmigrating beings.
One day, Lucy, in a very 80s dress, is visiting Zelda to talk about various things. Partaking of some Chinese food, Lucy finds herself choking on a piece of chicken. While her sister is pre-occupied, Lucy takes a tumble off a railing and goes into a coma. Rushed to the hospital, she dies within hours, but not before getting her first glance of a handsome doctor named Kevin Scanlon (Byrne). This character may seem periphery, but he'll be important soon enough.
Much sadness can be seen at Lucy's funeral, yet time can never stop. Within the year, Jason and Kim have married, Danny has found a girlfriend, Felicity (Potter), and founded a restaurant, and Zelda has had her business increase.
Going through her books one year to the day after Lucy's death, Zelda finds an old tome that contains a spell. To be specific, it's a spell that can bring a person back to life. Sensing a golden opportunity, Zelda heads for the graveyard where Lucy was interred, a white dress being carried alongside her book. After the spell is recited, unbelievably, inconceivably, Lucy comes back to life. Lucy is naturally shocked, and she talks with Zelda about the new lives everyone leads.
Talk leads to action, and in succession, Lucy finds her house under new ownership, the daycare center she worked at torn down and her husband re-married.
While the gift of new life is wonderful(?), it comes with a heavy price. Zelda informs Lucy that she must find true love before a certain period of time is up, or else she's dead permanently. Lucy thinks her true love is Jason, but that isn't to be. Jason feels younger and more like a free man, even though his marraige to Lucy was stable and produced a son. Lucy and Jason end up parting ways.
Everything is new and shocking to Lucy, and this takes her to visit Dr. Scanlon. Kevin agrees to take some tests on Lucy and after they match up, a publicity bonanza begins.
Interviews are taken, press conferences abound, and business at Danny's restaurant Felicity's explodes. Merchandising opportunities are presented and opened, and Lucy is headline news on every station. She even endears herself to a wealthy benefactor named Junior Lacey (Pendleton), the scion of the deceased husband of...
Kim, who's looking to take Lucy down a few pegs. She declares Lucy a fraud, says that the results were doctored (no pun intended) and ends up ruining everything, including a new romance between Lucy and Kevin.
With no one left to believe her, Lucy is a failure in life once more...or is she? With the assistance of Zelda, Danny, Felicity and Junior, Lucy attempts to win the fight of her second life, and possibly find love.
Does she succeed? Will she get her second chance at love? The only way to find out is to watch this movie.
It's a delightful tale to be enjoyed by everybody who wonders what will happen to them once they die.
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I rented this movie while staying at Walt Disney World this year, and it made perfect sense. This Touchstone release carries all the whimsy and emotion of the best animated features from its' sister company Walt Disney Pictures. There's plenty of comedy, as well as genuine emotion.
Many people dismiss this movie as a featherweight high-concept P-O-S. I go against the grain, and recommend this as one of the best and most challenging fantasies to come out of the 1980s.
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This was Frank Perry's second adaptation of a Susan Isaacs novel, the first being the 1985 suspense comedy "Compromising Positions", which starred Susan Sarandon. Isaacs wrote the screenplays for both pieces and also made an appearance as an occultist. 
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Illeana Douglas, 90s independent film actress and co-star of the short-lived Joel Silver-produced TV series "Action!", has a brief role as the mother of a small child. The late, beloved Lynne Thigpen also makes a brief appearance as a news reporter at both Lucy and Kim's press conferences.
This was Long's second movie for Touchstone Pictures in 1987, the first being "Outrageous Fortune".
The movie made 20 million dollars at the box office.
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Long Island: Glen Cove Train Station on Norfolk Ln /Duck Pond Road [Thanks to Cynthia]
The colonial house with the pillars, pictured on this site behind the cast, was built by my mother and father, Charlotte and Clifton Thomson, in 1928. It was called "Three Chimneys". [Thanks to Charlotte Thomson Is]
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William Goldstein composed the evocative original score. By turns whimsical and haunting, this is one of the best scores of the 80s. Why it wasn't nominated for an Oscar is beyond me. Track listing:
1. Hello Again-Main Title
2. Lucy's Reflection
3. Kevin and Lucy
4. In the Beginning
5. Zelda Visits the Beyond
6. Dinner Party/Lucy's Death
7. Tansfiguration (Resurrection)
8. Jason's Remorse/Zelda Clues in Scanlon
9. Lucy and Kevin Montage
10. Hello Again-Main Theme Reprise
11. Second Thoughts/Lucy and Kevin
12. Lucy Despairs/"Kimmy Pie"
13. Grand Finale
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