Heart And Souls Details

excellent film

This is a film about a boy who sees some ghosts and has them like friends but one day they have to go away. Years later the ghosts realise that they need the boy, now a man to help them sort out their unfinished business. This film has you laughing and crying. A delightful and what I would call a sit down and relax film. Give it a go.

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I've got a bone to pick with Mr. Downey Jnr

Whilst waiting in A&E to see a doctor one rainy Saturday morning my Mum and I were talking about a comedy film we'd seen the night before called 'Heart and souls' - The tale of a bus crash in '50's America, resulting in the premature deaths of its' four passengers whose souls became attached to a baby boy named Thomas.

Thomas had been born at the same moment they had died.

As he gets older, Thomas is the only one who can see the four ghosts, and they become his real but invisible friends, unfortunately they can't get more than about thirty feet away from him or each other.

However following a very funny incident when Thomas is about six, involving a bet on a horse, the four ghosts decide they need to dissapear from Thomas' life and allow him to be a normal kid.

They don't get to find out until many years later, and when it is almost too late, that Thomas was supposed to be their way to 'finish' unfinished business. They don't get to find this out until Thomas is an obnoxious grown up in his thirties and can't see his 'imaginary' friends anymore.

Once they manage to make him aware of their prescence the next hour or so is very entertaining and very, very funny. Especially once they realise they have to posses Thomas, as he refuses to help them.

There are happy endings all round to this story, and it wasted a couple of hours sitting around at the hospital. This film is so funny that when I did get to see a doctor, I'd been laughing so much that he wouldn't believe I'd broken my leg - Thankfully x-rays don't lie!