Defending Your Life - Criterion Collection

Albert Brooks writes, directs and stars in this 1990s romantic fantasy comedy. After he is killed in a car accident on his 39th birthday, successful advertising executive Daniel Miller (Brooks) finds himself in Judgment City, a shopping mall-style heaven where he must defend his life's worth in order to graduate to paradise. While he awaits judgment, Daniel falls in love with recently deceased Julia (Meryl Streep) but fears losing her if he cannot reach the afterlife.