The great Albert Brooks film Defending Your Life , from 1991, imagines a bureaucratic heaven that prepares the recently departed for their next phase of existence. The movie is a wry look at the petty foibles of life, the fears and neuroses that can impede a person’s path to fulfillment and enlightenment. There’s a romance involved, but the film is more about the individual.

The new film Eternity puts the romance right at the center. Directed by Dating Amber helmer David Freyne from a Black List script by Pat Cunnane, Eternity sets two marriages at odds with one another in the afterlife. Larry ( Miles Teller ) has just died (as an old man) and arrives at a train depot-esque limbo, where he is told he will have to choose what kind of forever he’d like for himself. Will it be an

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