Joe Pendleton is a Los Angeles Rams quarterback who is accidentally summoned to Heaven by a celestial escort. Pendleton is returned to earth in the body of another man, who is a corporate giant. While practicing to once again play for the Rams, Pendleton must escape attempts on his life while romantically pursuing a beautiful woman who protests the destruction caused to her village by one of his corporations.

• 1 hr 42 min
• Directed by

  Warren Beatty

  ,

  Buck Henry
• Written by Warren Beatty, Elaine May, Harry Segall, Robert Towne

• Starring

  Julie Christie

  ,

  James Mason

  ,

  Jack Warden

  ,

  Charles Grodin

  ,

  Dyan Cannon

  ,

  Vincent Gardenia

  ,

  Joseph Maher

  ,

  Dolph Sweet

  ,

  R.G. Armstrong

  ,

  John Randolph

  ,

  William Sylvester

  ,

  Keene Curtis

  ,

  Hamilton Camp

  ,

  Arthur Malet

  ,

  Stephanie Faracy

  ,

  Larry Block

  ,

  James F. Boeke

  ,

  Frank Campanella

  ,

  Roger Bowen

  ,

  Dick Enberg

  ,

  Bryant Gumbel

  ,

  Will Hare

  ,

  Joel Marston

  ,

  Richard O'brien

  ,

  Morgan Farley

  ,

  Robert Fortier

  ,

  Penelope Milford

  ,

  Ed Peck

  ,

  Elliott Reid

  ,

  Lisa Richards

  ,

  Lee Weaver

  ,

  Byron Webster