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MPAA Rating: PG-13 Content Advisory: Mild Violence, Adult Situations, Not For Children, Adult Language Movie Release: 1985 DVD Release: 11/15/2005 Format: DVD - Color,Enhanced Wide Screen Letterbox for 16x9 TV - Closed Captioned Audio Tracks: English, French Subtitles: English, French SwapaDVD Credits: 1 Number of Discs: 1 Run Time: 1 hrs 31 mins Studio: MGM Members Wishing: 11 Genres: Comedy, Fantasy, Heavenly Comedy

Ever since the "Topper" movies made ghosts likeable and helpful, films like The Heavenly Kid have taken up the theme with varying degrees of success. In this version of life after death, Bobby (Lewis Smith) is a teen who dies in a drag race as he goes over a cliff. He then enters a curious "mass transit" system that will not take him "uptown" until he returns back to earth and gains a little more virtue. And so Bobby is assigned the thankless task of converting Lenny (Jason Gedrick) into a self-confident individual who can date women without fear (not exactly on a par with bringing peace to the world, but this is a teen movie). There are some twists and turns along the way, though nothing shakes up the status quo or ventures beyond the already imagined. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide

Lewis Smith - Bobby
Jason Gedrick - Lenny
Richard Mulligan - Rafferty
Jane Kaczmarek - Emily
Mark Metcalf - Joe