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At the beginning of Just Like Heaven, Dr. Elizabeth Masterson (Reese Witherspoon) discovers that she is about to become chief resident at her hospital. She climbs into her car after a 26 hour shift, after tearing herself away from the patients who need her so. In her mixture of exhaustion and jubilation, she drives her car into an oncoming truck.While this is a tidy beginning for a romantic comedy about a spirit and recent widower David (Mark Ruffalo), it also makes for an apt foreshadowing of the movie itself.
We get to know David, the goodhearted but troubled guy who can