Defending Your Life (1991)

Directors

Albert Brooks

Cast

Albert Brooks, Meryl Streep, Rip Torn, Lee Grant, Shirley MacLaine

The story

Los Angeles advertising executive Daniel Miller dies in a car accident on his 39th birthday, mainly due to his distractedness, and is sent to Judgment City, a kind of temporary paradise for the recently deceased. The city is a waiting area staffed by brilliant and efficient but largely condescending bureaucrats who, having themselves moved on to their current new universal phase, mostly seem to gingerly look down on the latest arrivals who will have their lives (or most recent lives) on Earth judged over a week-long or so hearing, each before two judges. Amenities and activities are provided, from delicious, calorie-free, all-you-can-eat…

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