Duration: 128mins
Content:
Newlywed, unemployed, bored and having to live off of his wife's cousin Nettie, Billy Bigelow falls on his knife after trying to flee from an ill-fated robbery attempt. Unlike his unsavory cohort, Bigelow never wanted to kill Mr. Bascombe, the cotton mill owner. Bigelow only wanted half of the $3,000 Bascombe was reportedly carrying. He wanted to use the money to allow him, his wife and the unborn son he was expecting to make a new start in San Francisco. After he dies his wife, Julie, actually delivers a daughter, Louise. Bigelow is relegated to a lower realm of heaven where he spends eternity polishing stars. In spite of waving the right to go back for one day when he arrived in heaven, Bigelow convinces the Starkeeper to allow him to go back to Earth to attend his daughter's high school graduation. Any spirit that makes it to heaven can go back to Earth for one day to take care of unfinished business. As the daughter of an unemployed carnival barker who died in a robbery attempt, Louise has been taunted by the other children in her coastal Maine town her whole life. She hopes to leave the town to become an actress. Bigelow attempts to give Louise pride in her family by telling her how good looking her father was and how good he was as a carousel barker. But Barker badly messes that up, actually slapping Louise when trying to give her a star that he had taken from heaven. Not giving up on trying to influence her, Bigelow can only whisper for her to pay attention to what the speaker at her high school graduation is saying about not letting their parents' successes and failures hold them back.
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