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In 1959, in San Francisco, the telephone operator Penny Washington leaves her three children to work in her night shift. The shy singer Harrison Winslow is afraid of the stage and quits his audition. The waitress Julia is proposed by her boyfriend and she does not accept; then she regrets and leaves her job to seek him out. The smalltime thief Milo Peck tries to retrieve a collection of stamps that he had stolen from a boy. They embark in a bus and the driver Hal distracts while driving and has a serious accident, and driver and passengers die. Meanwhile, Frank Reilly is driving his pregnant wife Eva Reilly to the hospital. Frank successfully escapes from the bus but Eva is nervous and delivers her baby in the car. The souls of the four passengers become the guardian angels and the invisible friends of the boy Thomas Reilly. Seven years later, Penny, Julia, Harrison and Milo conclude that they are harming the boy and they decide to become invisible also to him. Thirty and something ... Written by
Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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The story of four souls who needed a body and one guy who needed some soul.
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Goofs
The trolley poles of the trackless trolley are clearly not making contact with the wire in certain shots.
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Quotes
Milo Peck:
Look, I'm a man.
Julia:
You're a *dead* man.
Milo Peck:
You bug my ass! You've been bugging my ass since the early-'70s.
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Connections
Referenced in
The Making of 'Tremors' (1998)
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Soundtracks
I Only Have Eyes For You
Written by
Al Dubin and
Harry Warren
Performed by
The Flamingos
Courtesy of Atlantic Recording Corp.
By Arrangement with Warner Special Products
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I thoroughly enjoyed this movie. I laughed at its funny bits and cried in the sad bits. Robert Downey Jnr was excellent as the leading character and the bus passengers provided some light relief. Everyone should have friends like these! Marvellous!