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There is a lot in this movie that is fun to watch, fresh, charming, original and could not have been made with any other cast.

Shelley Long won me over with this film. I was never a big Cheers fan but this made me wake up and take notice of her. She has been underutilized in Hollywood because she isn't outrageous...but that's everyone's loss.

Judith Ivey is another great talent with which Hollywood has no idea what to do. Her charm and kookiness in this film lets her shine.

The rest of the cast has a great deal of chemistry and is cast well for their broad characteristics.

Please don't listen to others - - there are hundreds of other movies that deserve to be reviled and vilified more than this. Sure it's predictable -- How many movies aren't???

The concept is enjoyable and I predict that some bimbo-star of the future will remake this and it will be fabulously popular. People will flock to see it just because of the bimbo and then finally THIS movie will have had its vindication and will be eulogized -- pardon the pun.

Just see it. It's fun.

Hello Again's best characters are Shelley Long and the actress who plays her sister. It offers an unique storyline that isn't beat to death in the movies. The film also provides an array of kooky characters,such as Shelley Long's sister, daugther-in-law, and brother-in-law. As usual Shelley's physical comedy makes you chuckle, even if it is more subtle in this flick. The comedy is off-sets by watching Shelley's struggle through this particular predicament, and although at times you empathisize with her, the movie never brings you down. It generally makes you chuckle and provides a feel-good atmosphere. The combination makes this one of my favorite comedy's of its era. It's a must see.

Shelly Long has proved herself to be very versatile in comedy. While this is not a complicated movie -- nor one of the best acted, it is one of the best acted that Shelly Long has done. The story is simple, but one that I'm sure most people have dreamed about. "What would happen to my family if I no longer 'existed'." A perfect world is not available in life -- or death, but on the screen it works. Even though it won no awards for acting, I find that it is one of the most entertaining movies I have seen -- one that needs to be added to a personal library, along with one of Shelly Long's funniest movies to be seen: Troop Beverly Hills.

i love this film it totally brings me back to being 10 again, it was just wacky enough to hold my attention, fair enough it doesn't match up to todays standard of movie but its a heart warming story that i love to watch again and again. Shelly plays the total scatter brain that i expect of her and her sister Zelda soon enough becomes the voice of reason. Danny plays the ever doting son and i have to say was a hunk in the 80s for me. i totally recommend this film to anyone with a weird sense of humour, for goodness sake she chokes on a chicken ball. My favourite part is at the end when she pretends to be possessed and talks about the cowboy boots that cracked me up, watch you'll see what i mean. Its a classic family film that you'll really enjoy.

Hello Again isn't getting the recognition it deserves.It's a funny relaxing movie that does indeed leave you sighing with contentment.It always does for me. It's about a housewife, Lucy Chadman married to an upscale doctor and is unhappy with her present career and comes to an untimely end while eating a south korean chicken ball. Her wacky sister Zelda dabbles in magic and manages to bring her back to life. Now Lucy must piece back her life with help from her handsome doctor and find true love within the next full moon or she has to go back. The movie is memorable because of the quirky story , Gabriel Byrne's admiring eyes for Lucy and the nonstop comedy.

Don't listen to most of the reviews, this movie is definitely worth watching!

my rating: 10/10!

I'm surprised at the other summary of this movie. I, too, have seen it several times and have always found it fairly well acted and written and just a good bit of fun in general.

Some of us LIKE movies with a happy ending! Kick back and enjoy this one.

'Hello again' might not be the best movie ever made in fact you could class it more as a made for TV movie but its not trying to be 'A Street car Named Desire' all its trying to do is bring joy to Shelly Long fans. It made me chuckle. The premise for the movie is very good. A house wife who lives through her husband and has no particular purpose in life suddenly dies but only for her to be brought back to life for her to live her life the way she should of all along. However the film is very patchy in places with no real character development, change in plot confusing, jokes fall flat, random scenes clutter up the film, the list of problems could go on. Shelly Long does the best she can with a dodgy script as do the other actors. Her performance leaves you in no doubts of her comedic talents. But through out its problems it never lose its its tone. Lighthearted fun for all the family especially Shelly Long fans.

I love this movie. I watch it over and over and over. My husband comes home and says are you watching this AGAIN. It has everything. I love the store and the little restaurant that is run by the Son after her passing.It's full of magic and makes me feel just great after watching it. It makes me cry each time I watch it too. Some people would think it is a little dated but not me I think its perfect. The clothing that they wear is fun. I also really like the actress they used for the Son's wife. She is full of fun. The psychic store is just beautiful and I love the crazy sister, Zelda. Shelley Long plays a great part in it. It is also a reminder of making your dreams come true while you are here. Finding your passion and making it happen. Abundant Blessings everyone. Sharon

This film has gotten a bad rap, but it is actually a sweet film about second chances. Lucy Chadman (Bubbly Shelly Long)is an embarrassment to her vain husband Jason (Corbin Bernsen), but loved by her quirky sister (Judith Ivey) and her son. One day, she dies (Choking to death on a oriental chicken ball). One year later, thanks to her sister's book of spells, Lucy comes back to life. She soon finds that a lot has changed: her husband has married her friend, Kim(Sela Ward). Lucy then becomes attracted to the doctor that tried to save her the year before (Gabriel Byrne). Soon, her secret is out and Kim, afraid that her new hubby would go back to her, decides to cause trouble for Lucy.

Sure the film may sound typical, even formulaic (You pretty much have a feeling how things will work out and who ends up with whom), but it's still a funny, sweet film. Worth checking out.

I don't know why so many people have slammed this movie in the comments section. I have seen this film numerous times and find it hilarious and Shelley Long adorable. No, this is not a film that requires a lot of deep thinking and analyzing, but it's not supposed to be. It's a light-hearted, romantic comedy that achieves its goal -- it entertains you, makes you laugh and touches your heart. It need not try to do anymore than that. Shelley Long, Judith Ivey, Gabriel Byrn and Sela Ward all give great performances, as does the rest of the supporting cast.

Another great 80's movie...I simply love it. I was never a Cheers fan, but I loved Shelly Long in this. Wish she was in more films these days! If you liked this check out SWITCH with Ellen Barkin, another excellent and underrated film from the 80's.

Back to HELLO AGAIN, this movie makes me feel good and laugh. Love the supporting cast. Her sister is hilarious, and the son is kinda cute.

Simply loved the part when her sister revives her, and the part when she walks in on her husband and Kim. And the part when she crashed the party and drops cake on the monsters. Her hubby was an --sHOLE. Love this movie totally!!!!!

If you like Shelley Long and enjoy her great acting skills, you will enjoy the role she plays in this film. Shelly Long,(Lucy Chadman),"The Adventures of Ragtime",'98, is married to a doctor who performs plastic surgery and is very content with Lucy's slap stick ways of doing things. Lucy attends fancy parties with a bunch of stuffed shirts and manages to destroy her dress and the entire dinner party. There is a great deal of this comedy through out the entire picture. Judith Ivey,(Zelda),"What Alice Found",'03, plays Lucy's sister and owns a book store in Manhattan and at the same time deals with the Spiritual World and manages to perform an unusual act of Witch Craft! This is a very funny picture and if you like COMEDY, this is the film for YOU!

It is my opinion that Shelley Long is a very fine comedic actress, & she certainly doesn't disappoint as Lucy Chadman, a happy homemaker who even on her best day is less than graceful. This movie is utterly adorable, & it leaves you with one of those satisfied feelings when it's over. It has a great deal of heart. Gabriel Bern is fantastic as the doctor who may be Lucy's last chance for true love, & you just want to strangle Sela Ward. Overall this movie (light and fluffy as some may call it) asks a poignant question if you had a second chance...what would you do with it?

Accident-prone Long Island housewife Shelley Long (as Lucy) chokes to death on a South Korean chicken-ball, then comes back to life after a spell cast by her kooky sister Judith Ivey (as Zelda). To avoid being sent back to her grave, Ms. Long must find true love with either her doctor Gabriel Byrne (as Kevin Scanlon) or widowed husband Corbin Bernsen (as Jason Chadman). "Hello Again" appears to be an update of "My Favorite Wife (1940) and "Move Over, Darling" (1963). For added fun, Long's "Lucy" is given some physical comedy which recalls the famous comedienne. Lucille Ball lost her dress in "Yours, Mine and Ours" (1968) and had several eating mishaps like those herein, but she wasn't clumsy. Long and director Frank Perry can't quite get the staging and situation to make for maximum laughter.

**** Hello Again (11/6/87) Frank Perry ~ Shelley Long, Judith Ivey, Gabriel Byrne, Corbin Bernsen

Unless you're the mean ogre all of your neighbors avoid, I don't see anything wrong with admitting you like this movie. I'm glad to see more favorable reviews here than negative ones. I have seen it half a dozen times over the past 24 years, and it always brings me a lot of smiles, where repeat viewings of other more successful films of this era bring on groans. This is equivalent to the "Topper" films of the 30's (and even more so the very enjoyable "Turnabout") so there's nothing rocket science about this movie's storyline. Shelley Long either is praised or condemned, and to paraphrase Shakespeare, I come here to praise her for her likable performance in this rare later day screwball comedy.

Judith Ivey may not seem to be perfect casting as her sister, but not all sisters look like Marcia, Jan and Cindy (to name the sisters from a later Shelley Long character). Long plays a lot more likable character here than she did in the same year's "Outrageous Fortune" (where she was basically playing Diane Chambers), and while she's not Carole Lombard, she's not Pia Zadora either. Some wonderful character actors like Austin Pendleton, Carrie Nye, and John Cunningham add color. I was delighted to see Nye playing a very colorful snob with a bit of Tallulah Bankhead thrown in. Could anybody in such a bit part steal every scene she was in? Those who remember her deliciously campy performances in two roles on "Guiding Light" will adore her here, as will those who only know the veteran stage actress as the sister who ends up a birthday cake in "Creepshow".

Nice movies don't seem to be the more popular ones in retrospective, but when you look at some of the teen comedies of the era, it's almost GB Shaw or Noel Coward in comparison.

I really feel that it is about time someone defended this movie! Okay, so the script and the plot isn't up to much, and maybe some of the acting is a little bit on the thin side, but it's one of those movies that you can sit and watch without having to analyze every tiny detail. I don't think Shelley Long is bad in the lead role, and her constant clumsiness did manage to raise the odd laugh, and I think her eccentric sister is brilliant. Therefore, I think that although this is not going to go down in history alongside Citizen Kane, it deserves some recognition as a movie which is ideal for a lazy Sunday.

All right, so it's not the great epic of our times, but it's pretty cute. Gabriel Byrne gives a good performance as Kevin Scanlon, the workaholic doctor who falls in love with Lucy Chadman, a nonsensical suburban housewife resurrected a year after her death. Byrne combines wry humour and determination nicely - and is the reason I've seen the movie as many times as I have. Shelley Long bubbles as usual, in the role of Lucy, a woman who must choose between her old life, and her second chance for happiness. It's a cute 80's romantic comedy, and an enjoyable anecdote.

Shelly Long is an excellent comedic actress who has excruciatingly terrible taste in choosing films. Watching her on Cheers is a joy. She has perfect comedy timing and is at her best as an intellectual in a company of clowns.

BUT she should NOT be cast as the clown! In her movie career she pulled a "Chevy Chase" and spiraled down from an attractive bright person to a buffoon. Hello Again is the nadir (I hope!).

Where do I start? The writer, Susan Issacs, must be somebody's niece. She is a rotten writer. Making Lucy's character a stumble bum is pointless. Why? Who would think the constant pratfalls are funny?? It is embarrassing to watch.

Judith Ivey should get the ham of the year award for drastic overacting. Gabriel Byrnes is wonderful. I had not seen him before, but seeing how he could even pretend to be in character in this turkey was impressive. And I liked Corbin B.

I watch this movie to cheer myself up. No matter how bad things are in my life, at least I didn't appear in this film.

Lucy Chadman (Shelley Long) is a former-teacher Long Island housewife uncomfortable with the high class parties required by her ambitious Manhattan surgeon Jason (Corbin Bernsen) looking to be chief of plastic surgery at the Knickerbocker. Her gold-digging college friend Kim Lacey (Sela Ward) is three-times-married and looking for a fourth. Her son Danny is a passionate chef. Her sister Zelda (Judith Ivey) is an odd character dabbling in witchcraft. Lucy chokes to death on a South Korean chicken ball from Zelda. Exactly one year later, Zelda uses a spellbook to bring back Lucy. She finds the world has changed. Danny didn't go to Columbia and instead, opened his own restaurant. Jason married Kim and sold the house. She returns to the Knickerbocker ER to talk to Dr. Kevin Scanlon (Gabriel Byrne) who treated her a year ago. Unbeknownst to her, she needs to find true love by the next full moon.

This is not that funny. Shelley Long's pratfalls are awkward and unfunny. The first half of the story is good. The romance takes a long time to start. Gabriel Byrne doesn't show up until the end of the first act and even later for him to fully be a character. The second half of the story is clunky after the world discovers her return from the dead. This is simply not funny enough and I put most of that on writer Susan Isaacs. Director Frank Perry does a workmanlike job but his comedic takes are not laugh worthy either. The romance is fine and I kinda like the wacky sister.

There is one main reason why "Hello again" isn't quite as good as it could be. It's Shelly Long's character herself. Don't get me wrong, I like Shelly Long (even though I keep reading reviews of people who keep saying how they can't stand her). It's more of the type of character the writers made her to be in this film. Shelly Long herself I think is a pleasant, nice looking woman in an innocent kind of way. And I liked her in "Cheers" and as Tom Hank's wife in "The money pit". The issue with her here is that she is very clumsy with two left feet. The writers must have thought that making her that way would be a good joke for the movie. They were wrong. I think it a distraction. The idea itself of bringing back someone from the dead is an interesting enough topic for me without the distraction of making her a klutz. Lucy's (Shelly's) spiritual sister, Zelda who runs her own supernateraul shop is the one who performs a spell to bring her back. Zelda is a neat, quirky character in this film and I liked her. Anyway, when Lucy returns, she has to, of course go through the whole ordeal of immensely surprising everyone in her life from before her death that she has returned, and dealing with their understandably intense reactions with such a thing occurring. After all, this sort of thing just doesn't happen every day. She finds out how her husband Richard has now hooked up now Kim, a beautiful flashy woman who Lucy was friends with before but now, after the whole ordeal, the two women don't like each other so much anymore. After all, Kim is now obviously scared that Lucy will go back to Richard since before her death, they never officially divorced. And Lucy, understandable, is not comfortable with seeing Kim romantically hooked up with her husband. Lucy also meets a doctor, Peter while going to the hospital to find out how she died. Peter obviously thinks she's crazy at first ("if you don't take a walk, I'm gonna call security"), but after convincing from Lucy saying things only the "real" Lucy wouldve known, and Peter conducting a series of tests, he's astounded to find out that this woman who died one year earlier, is really the same woman come back. And Lucy dying from choking on a South Korean chicken ball is a good touch. Lucy also made a pretty funny joke about the chicken ball before she choked, "boy, I'd like to see the rest of the chicken". The rest of the movie I won't spoil by writing here. I'll just say that there are definitely some good bits but also a few dumb bits. The dumb bits are mostly from what I mentioned before about Lucy's clumsiness. The hospital executive was also sort of an offbeat character, this weird looking and talking short bald man. However, this is a nice, interesting, quirky little picture to enjoy on a Saturday night while eating pizza.

Shelley Long is very appealing and cute in this harmless movie. Long plays Lucy Chadman, a young woman who chokes to death, then months later is brought back to life by her wacky sister Zelda (Judith Ivey). Chadman's life has changed radically since her death, and she spends her time falling in love all over again.

The film has an uncomfortably goofy atmosphere, as if it's spoofing something that isn't really identified; these sequences are interspersed with very romantic scenes in which Chadman is again falling in love. It's definitely a mixed bag, but the ending--which appears to have been tacked on after the writers couldn't come up with a story resolution--is so awkward and unconvincing that it ruins the entire film. In all of my years, I don't think I've ever seen a film with such an unbelievably dumb story resolution. I really felt sorry for the cast when I saw the ending.

Long is good and Sela Ward is beautiful, but the goofy feeling the movie conveys irritated me somewhat, and the ending just left me dumbfounded. Proceed if you like Shelley Long, I suppose.

I must admit I am a fan of Shelley Long. I believe she's a truly talented comedy actress. However, not even her greatest endeavours could help save this truly awful movie. Don't get me wrong, it has some strong points, but these are generally swamped by poor acting, poor script and poor direction. Long's incessant clumsiness was both unfunny and irrelevant. The script seemed to be a minefield of cliches and dull one-liners. The direction as a result appears dramatically effected by this, but surely could have improved some of the scenes. The plot also hovers between scientific miracle and occult fantasy, when perhaps one approach would have sufficed. Long's trickery of her friend near the end, although cleverly "acted", was lame and contrived. I'm so disappointed to write this. Please, please, please (to the producers) don't ever make a movie like this again. And finally....how much money did it lose?

Director Frank Perry, who in the early 1970s showed some honest talent and an abundance of visual wit, channels the same cartoony approach to 'life' here as he did with his "Compromising Positions"...and the affects are equally as meager. Shelley Long dies but comes back, however there's nothing relatably human about Long's approach to acting. Yes, she's playing a klutzy ditz with a heart of gold, but Long has no shadings, and when she tries for sincerity it rings hollow (even her overly-clear speaking voice sounds as if it's coming from an echo chamber and not a person). I liked Long in the underrated "Irreconcilable Differences", where she really had a chance to carve out a character beyond her snippy "Cheers" persona. It's not that she's a bad actress, there just doesn't seem to be a soul in that body. Pert and perky, she's utterly one-dimensional, pink-and-blonde-and-bland. Who cares if she returns from the dead? *1/2 from ****

Tripe of this sort never ceases to amaze me. What's worse, though, is the presence of good actors such as Gabriel Byrne. I hope that everyone was paid well for this film because I don't think they were doing it for artistic acclaim!

Shelley Long has no business on the big screen...just as she had no business on television - and THAT'S saying something considering the sub-par acting that usually goes on in the world of TV actors.

I have no problem with silly movies and cute story lines. But when a film is so obviously leading in one way with characters drawn with the largest strokes...it becomes a cartoon...and not a very funny one at that.

I didn't like Doris Day in "Move Over, Darling" and I didn't like Shelley Long in "Hello Again." But, Doris Day, when under the direction of say, Norman Jewison, was brilliant. He kept the reins tight on her in films like "The Thrill of It All" and eliminated a lot of the "cuteness" or "dorisdayisms" that were annoying to so many people.

With a better script, "Hello Again" would have been a fun picture for Miss Day, who when regulated, was the best at this sort of nonsense. Miss Long, God bless her, is no Doris Day in the comedy department and was not able to believably handle the slapstick like Miss Day (who was as good as Lucille Ball in that area).

I would like to have seen Janis Paige or Dorothy Louden play the Judith Ivy part. Ivy was a little TOO weird-looking in this and I didn't believe her for a minute as Shelly's sister.

Byrne was good as the doctor, but Shelley Long has never been movie star material. She's strictly small screen. Look at the hairstyle she was burdened with -- too high school girlish.

The picture isn't that bad if there's nothing else to watch at the time. It's really a TV movie disguising itself as a big Hollywood screen comedy.