Heart and Souls * & & (Univer- sal) Rated Mature (at the Park & Tilford, Granville, Coquitlam, Sta- tion Square, Scott 72, Clearbrook cinemas)

O, TELL me, what

happens when you

die? Do angels whisk you away? What about that white light at the end of the tunnel stuff? Should you take a change of underwear?

Four strangers -- Harrison (Charles Grodin), Julia (Kyra Sedgwick), Milo (Tom Sizemore) and Penny (Alfre Woodard) — find out the hard way when they discover the disadvantages of public transit. Their distracted bus driver “failed to negotiate a turn’ as they say in Driver's td.

The departing souls are im- mediate tethered to newly born Thomas Riley. As Thomas grows, his parents wonder why he’s constantly laughing at the walls. Of course, the baby's four “friends,” invisible to all but him, are kootchy-kooing.

But when, at the ripe old age of seven, he starts getting advice on placing bets, he unnerves his parents and the spirits decide it would be best if they ‘sort of” disappeared.

Twenty-five years later the deceased bus driver (David Payner) — now condernned to drive a ghostly bus for the next 500 years — comes to tell them there’s been a slight mishap. They were supposed to have used this time to tie up the loose ends of their lives through Thomas.

So with a very pressing “bus schedule” and a reluctant host, all four get a chance to shuffle back on this mortal coil.

Robert Downey Jr. shows re- markable flair in this bittersweet comedy under the direction of Ron Underwood (City Slickers). AS with Underwood’s previous film, the tender moments are definitely Hollywood flavored, but they work.

Still, it sure seems as though L.A. is undergoing a spiritual crisis with movies like Ghost, Defending Your Life, Death Becomes Her, Weekend at Bernie’s, plus all those sundry zombies and vam- pires.

Maybe it's their eternal belief in

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the comeback. One thing's for sure — it’s hip to be dead. Manhattan Murder Mystery

* & k (Tri Star) Rated M (at a Cineplex Odeon Theatre near you)

too) as he reteams with Diane Keaton to solve a mystery. Did their next-door neighbor Mrs. House die from a cardiac arrest of was she the victim of foul play? Carol (Keaton) thinks Mr. House is too “perky” for a recent widower and vows to expose the kiler. Cowardly Larry (Woody) says she should stop sneaking into their neighbor's apartment for evi- dence and save a little craziness for her menopause. He's also not keen on Carol's lonely friend, Ted (Alan Alda), who wants to be more than just her sleuthing partner. However, it’s Carol's turn to be jealous when a fourth amateur detective, Larry's client, author

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