Defending Your Life

About Defending Your Life

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.

Albert Brooks's Defending Your Life is a 1991 comedy fantasy film. It runs 111 minutes and was released in March 1991.

Albert Brooks stars as Daniel Miller, Meryl Streep as Julia, Rip Torn as Bob Diamond, and Lee Grant as Lena Foster. Written by Albert Brooks. It was produced by Geffen Pictures.

Shelv files it under car accident, courtroom, afterlife, and reincarnation.

The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, Ghost, and Ghostbusters II make useful companions to Defending Your Life, all filed under allegory. It scores 6.9 out of 10 from 336 TMDB voters and it carries a PG rating.