Defending Your Life

1991 "The first true story of what happens after you die."

Defending Your Life

7.2 | 1h52m | PG | en | Fantasy

Is there love after death? After he dies suddenly, the hapless advertising executive Daniel Miller finds himself in Judgment City, a gleaming way station where the newly deceased must prove they lived a life of sufficient courage to advance in their journey through the universe. As the self-doubting Daniel struggles to make his case, a budding relationship with the uninhibited Julia offers him a chance to finally feel alive.

Watch Now

Rent / Buy

Buy from $19.99

Rent from $3.79

7.2 | 1h52m | PG | en | Fantasy , Comedy , Romance

Synopsis

Cast

Albert Brooks , Meryl Streep , Rip Torn

Director

Richard Reynolds

Producted By

Warner Bros. Pictures , Geffen Pictures

Trailers

Cast

Albert Brooks

as Daniel Miller

[2021] The Super Bob Einstein Movie [2017] I Love You, Daddy [2016] Finding Dory [2016] The Little Prince [2016] The Secret Life of Pets [2015] Concussion [2014] A Most Violent Year [2012] This Is 40 [2011] Drive

Meryl Streep

as Julia

[2023] Here We Are: Notes for Living on Planet Earth [2021] Hemingway [2021] Dear Elizabeth [2021] Don't Look Up [2021] Moments Within Moments [2020] In Search of the Sanderson Sisters: A Hocus Pocus Hulaween Takeover [2020] Let Them All Talk [2020] The Prom [2020] Meryl Streep: Mystery and Metamorphosis

Rip Torn

as Bob Diamond

[2011] National Lampoon's The Legend of Awesomest Maximus [2009] Happy Tears [2008] The Golden Boys [2008] August [2008] Turn the River [2007] Bee Movie [2006] Zoom [2006] Marie Antoinette [2005] Yours, Mine & Ours