Chances Are is a 1989 American romantic comedy film directed by Emile Ardolino and starring Cybill Shepherd, Robert Downey Jr., Ryan O'Neal, and Mary Stuart Masterson in Panavision.

[2] Young district attorney Louie Jeffries is hit by a car and dies in 1964, but manages to slip by the pearly gates and is reborn.

In 1987, twenty-three years later, his widow Corinne still misses him, ignoring the devotion of his best friend Phillip Train, who has raised Louie's only daughter Miranda as his own.

His first attempts to meet with Ben Bradlee thwarted, he schemes his way into his office by pretending to be a delivery man.

Miranda, wanting to continue the flirtation that started when they met, is confused when Alex rebuffs her, sending her to her room when she kisses him.

Attempting to escape from the commotion in the courtroom, Alex falls down the stairs, hits his head, and ends up in the hospital.

While unconscious, Omar the angel visits him, and gives him the special "shot" he should have gotten twenty-three years before, to forget his past life.

Impressed by Alex's journalistic prowess in exposing the corrupt judge, Bradlee offers him a job as a reporter at the Post.

Many scenes were filmed in Georgetown, along the Mall, Glen Echo Park, Smithsonian museums, and other parts of Washington, D.C.

[4] Roger Ebert of The Chicago Sun Times gave the film 3 and 1/2 out of 4 stars saying, “"Chances Are" is a lighthearted romance about reincarnation, told with wit and a certain irony.”[5] The soundtrack included the Billboard's Top 10 single hit song "After All" (composed by Tom Snow and lyrics by Dean Pitchford) performed by Cher and Peter Cetera.