ROBERT DOWNEY JNR.   CHARLES GRODIN   KYRA SEDGWICK   

ELISABETH SHUE   TOM SIZEMORE   DAVID PAYMER   

and   ALFRE WOODARD

star in

A film by Ron Underwood

HEART AND SOULS

A spirited comedy from the director of "City Slickers".

His heart. Their souls. It's a lot to put right in just a few hours.

VHS - PAL - NEW - Never played!! - PG-rated - Colour - 1993-release - 99-minutes - Comedy, Drama, Fantasy - Original VHS release in Australia - Large box

In 1959, in San Francisco, the telephone operator Penny Washington leaves her three children to work in her night shift. 

The shy singer Harrison Winslow is afraid of the stage and quits his audition. 

The waitress Julia is proposed to by her boyfriend and she does not accept; then she regrets and leaves her job to seek him out. 

The small time thief Milo Peck tries to retrieve a collection of stamps that he had stolen from a boy. 

They embark in a bus and the driver Hal distracts while driving and has a serious accident, and driver and passengers die. 

Meanwhile, Frank Reilly is driving his pregnant wife Eva Reilly to the hospital. Frank successfully escapes from the bus but Eva is nervous and delivers her baby in the car. 

The souls of the four passengers become the guardian angels and the invisible friends of the boy Thomas Reilly. 

Seven years later, Penny, Julia, Harrison and Milo conclude that they are harming the boy and they decide to become invisible also to him. 

Thirty and something years later, Hal returns with his bus to take them four and the quartet learns that they had all those years to resolve the issues of their lives. 

They ask Hal to stall and give some more time for them to resolve their unfinished lives and they decide to come back to Thomas, who is now a tough businessman and indecisive in his relationship with girlfriend Anne, and ask him to help them to resolve their issues and become free souls. 

In the end, Thomas also becomes a better man.

Just call me a sentimental sap, but this one is one of my favorite movies.

 Robert Downey Jr., Alfre Woodard, Kyra Sedgwick, Charles Grodin, Elisabeth Shue, Tome Sizemore, Dave Paymer where all excellent! What a Great combination! 

I saw this movie before my youngest son was born and it made such a lasting impression on me that it caused me to make bedtime rituals with him (Prayer, and what he calls his Lu-Lu's (a song We made up)). 

I've seen this movie maybe a half dozen times and stop and wait any time I see that it's on TV.

 This movie made me a Robert Downey Jr. fan, and it made me a little more sympathetic to his personal issues. I'm happy to see that he may have finally turned the corner on his recovery.