What is Defending Your Life / Modern Romance about?

DEFENDING YOUR LIFE, 1991, Warner Bros., 112 min, Comedy/Romance, USA. Dir. Albert Brooks. When ad exec Albert Brooks dies in a car accident, he learns what the afterlife is really like - a combination theme park and Hollywood screening room, where the deceased are forced to "defend" moments from their lives in the way that Hollywood directors have to defend their work from critics and studio executives. Brooks finds love with Meryl Streep, another of the recently departed, but their relationship is complicated by the fact that Brooks suspects they might be going on to very different places. MODERN ROMANCE, 1981, Sony Repertory, 93 min, Comedy/Romance, USA. Dir. Albert Brooks. In his second feature as writer, director and star, Albert Brooks plays a film editor whose precision in the cutting room is hopelessly opposite from his chaotic love life. In spite of their obvious incompatibility, he and girlfriend Kathryn Harrold keep breaking up and getting back together.

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What is Defending Your Life / Modern Romance about?: DEFENDING YOUR LIFE, 1991, Warner Bros., 112 min, Comedy/Romance, USA. Dir. Albert Brooks. When ad exec Albert Brooks dies in a car accident, he learns what the afterlife is really like - a combination theme park and Hollywood screening room, where the deceased are forced to "defend" moments from their lives in the way that Hollywood directors have to defend their work from critics and studio executives. Brooks finds love with Meryl Streep, another of the recently departed, but their relationship is complicated by the fact that Brooks suspects they might be going on to very different places.
MODERN ROMANCE, 1981, Sony Repertory, 93 min, Comedy/Romance, USA. Dir. Albert Brooks. In his second feature as writer, director and star, Albert Brooks plays a film editor whose precision in the cutting room is hopelessly opposite from his chaotic love life. In spite of their obvious incompatibility, he and girlfriend Kathryn Harrold keep breaking up and getting back together.