Defending Your Life

Here’s a little gem from the early 90s that I hadn’t heard of until recently. It’s an unchallenging bit of wit centered around Albert Brooks’ humor using a view of the afterlife that functions around the idea of reincarnation. There’s something about overcoming fear to become a better person which feels surprisingly thin, but it’s the sort of thin that is a nice veneer to a little story of the afterlife.

Daniel Miller (Albert Brooks) is an ad executive who, on the first day he gets his sm...