Romantic Movie Chances Are

Chances Are is a 1989 romantic comedy film written by Perry & Randy Howze and directed by Emile Ardolino. Starring Cybill Shepherd, Robert Downey, Jr., Ryan O'Neal, and Mary Stuart Masterson. The original music score was composed by Maurice Jarre. Young D.A. Louie Jeffries is hit by a car and dies in 1964 but manages to slip by the pearly gates and is instantly reborn. Twenty-three years later, his widow Corinne still misses him, ignoring the frustrated devotion of his best friend Phillip Train, who has pretty much raised his only daughter Miranda (Mary Stuart Masterson) as his own. When Phillip brings Yale graduate Alex Finch to meet the Jeffries family, Alex (Robert Downey, Jr.) quickly realizes he is in fact Corinne's dead husband reborn.