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Defending Your Life (Episode 83) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
1991's Defending Your Life is the fourth film Albert Brooks' wrote, directed and starred in. He would eventually serve in those capacities on a total of seven films, all bearing his distinctive gentle but incisive examination of love, death and relationships. Brooks hoped to challenge the popular and Hollywood version of heaven and the afterlife as a fanciful, peaceful Utopia. He imagines in Defending Your Life a heaven not dissimilar to our corporeal world -- one run much like a business, where the most prepared are rewarded with eternal salvation. He had a strong cast (Meryl Street, Rip…
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