Custom image of Chris Rock as Lance Barton in Down to Earth
The Big Picture "What if you died and were reincarnated into another person's body?" is such a compelling concept for a movie that it's been made three times. Starting on the stage, Harry Segall's play, Heaven Can Wait — not to be confused with the 1943 Ernst Lubitsch film that shares its name but has nothing to do with the play — follows a boxer mistakenly sent to the afterlife who is given another chance at life by taking over a dead person's body.
Release Date February 16, 2001 Director Paul Weitz , Chris Weitz Cast Chris Rock , Regina King , Chazz Palminteri , Eugene Levy , Frankie Faison , Greg Germann , Jennifer Coolidge , Wanda Sykes , John Cho , Mario Joyner , Bryetta Calloway , Martha Chaves , Brian Rhodes , Herb Lovelle , Mark Addy , Michael Port Runtime 87 Minutes Main Genre Comedy Writers Chris Rock , Louis C.K.
When Lance looks at himself in the mirror, he is still the same person: a young black man. To the outside world, they see Charles Wellington. This helps settle any writing or casting dilemmas, as well as creates a series of zany hijinks for Lance thanks to Rock's brand of racial observational humor. In a scenario everyone watching saw coming, Lance as Charles sings along to DMX's "Ruff Ryder's Anthem," only to be punched for singing lyrics off limits to white people.
Down to Earth is not the farcical trip its poster and logline indicate. Compared to Albert Brooks' afterlife-set romantic comedy, Defending Your Life, which satirizes American ideals through the lens of people proving themselves worthy of returning to Earth, the Weitz Brothers' film hastily moves past its engaging premise in the purgatory community to get Lance inside Charles' body. The movie, for better or worse, is heartfelt, or at least it tries to be.
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