Defending Your Life
Is there love after death? After he dies suddenly, the hapless advertising executive Daniel Miller finds himself in Judgment City, a gleaming way station where the newly deceased must prove they lived a life of sufficient courage to advance in their journey through the universe. As the self-doubting Daniel struggles to make his case, a budding relationship with the uninhibited Julia offers him a chance to finally… From TMDB
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60 of 156 · most liked first"Defending Your Life" is a 1991 Albert Brooks movie. "Defending My Life" is a Rob Reiner doc on Brooks from 2023.
neutral · AI labelView post →I went with three discs on this Criterion sale. I think Defending Your Life may have been my mom’s favorite film. She wasn’t the type to declare a film her favorite but I never saw her react to a movie like she did this one.
positive · AI labelView post →. 45 Days of Great Movies The Election Will Be Over After TODAY (WEFUCKINGHOPE). ONE MORE DAY of #GreatMovies: #45 "Defending Your Life" I was trying to decide between something political ("The Ides of March" - Clooney) & something meaningful... but FUNNY AS FUCK. I went with the latter. 🥸
positive · AI labelView post →Harbor Frieght Solar Panels b/w Sketchy Wiring. Not long ago I bought an Anker power station, a C2000. It's basically a 2.5 gallon bucket full of electricity. 2 kilowatt hour battery, a fairly beefy inverter that can put out 22A continuous and peaks at something like 33A so it can both run AND start my table saw. It also has a solar power input, A DC jack on the side, with I believe an MPPT charger built-in. It came with a big weird flexible solar panel that is allegedly rated for 200…
neutral · AI labelView post →I went into Eternity (2025) expecting a low-rent Defending Your Life. 100% it's exactly that, though mustering a handful of B-movie sentimental pleasures of its own. It's really a Miles Teller showcase, though, if anyone really asked for that in a film. (But it's still Defending Your Life.)
neutral · AI labelView post →Reminder: Meryl Streep mentions turkey and stuffing in Defending Your Life so it’s a defacto Thanksgiving movie. Also it’s flawless.
positive · AI labelView post →Don’t skip Defending Your Life, Albert Brooks/Meryl Streep My all time fave movie
positive · AI labelView post →My fave Albert Brooks movie, DEFENDING YOUR LIFE released 35 years ago today. It’s a timeless comedy about facing your fears to achieve happiness. There are a lot of films that try to capture true intimacy & finding your person. In my opinion, this scene is the perfect encapsulation of true love.
positive · AI labelView post →Happy Birthday to actor, director, writer, comic Albert Brooks, born Albert L. Einstein on July 22, 1947, Beverly Hills, CA! Real Life (1979), Modern Romance (1981), Lost in America (1985) & Defending Your Life (1991) are four of the funniest films he ever wrote/co-wrote & directed. More: alt text
neutral · AI labelView post →Tonight on Criterion Channel: Defending Your Life with Albert Brooks, who was in my second favorite movie of all time ~ which might actually be my first favorite but I’ve pledged my eternal allegiance to When Harry Met Sally ~ Broadcast News.
positive · AI labelView post →My favorite Rob Reiner film is "Defending Your Life" with Albert Brooks and Meryl Streep.
positive · AI labelView post →What's your favorite movie from each decade of your life? 60s The Umbrellas of Cherbourg 70s Superman 80s Raiders of the Lost Ark 90s Defending Your Life 00s Sideways 10s Moonlight 20s Sinners
neutral · AI labelView post →PSA: If you're looking for some of Rob Reiner's filmography, as of now.. -HBO Max has both Spinal Taps and Albert Brooks: Defending Your Life -Netflix has Stand By Me -Hulu has The Princess Bride -Starz has When Harry Met Sally -Amazon Prime has And So It Goes -Tubi has Being Charlie and Shock&Awe
neutral · AI labelView post →Adam Scott continuing the trend. people in hollywood who love Defending Your Life so much try making a movie like that challenge
neutral · AI labelView post →Albert Brooks' Defending Your Life, as I think that it's a brilliant movie for how it uses it's interesting sense of drama and comedy to tell a compelling story that manages to make me laugh but also gives me a sense of anxiety, as it's about the consequences that lie ahead with the concept of fear.
positive · AI labelView post →Laura Dern praising my favorite movie/favorite director in the Criterion Closet just made me well up. I’ve loved Defending Your Life since I was in 5th grade and it’s so vindicating when people I respect shout it out.
positive · AI labelView post →#moviesky #30dayfilmchallenge 7 'Defending Your Life' is one of my favorite movies & has my favorite actor. Meryl Streep as an actor almost seems out of place like a celebrity in a community production in their hometown & gives even more credibility to a fairly mainstream film with an art house feel
positive · AI labelView post →For my money, Mother (1996) is the funniest movie i am always in the mood to watch. Defending Your Life is kind of a masterpiece too - even my Gen Z niblings like it. Truly, high praise
positive · AI labelView post →There's a pretty great movie called Defending Your Life that sorta deals with this 🤙
neutral · AI labelView post →Fave film for each year of the 1990s 1990: Quick Change 1991: Defending Your Life 1992: Death Becomes Her 1993: What’s Love Got to Do With It? 1994: Serial Mom 1995: While You Were Sleeping 1996: The First Wives Club 1997: Waiting For Guffman 1998: The Last Days of Disco 1999: The Matrix
neutral · AI labelView post →C'mon people. I sweat about accidentally putting the wrong release dates on my lecture slides with movie clips. A 100% real quote: "Oh, sorry gang, I know that says 1919, but Defending Your Life came out in 1991."
neutral · AI labelView post →“Defending Your Life” was directed and written by Albert Brooks, but he was very good friends with Rob Reiner. He must be devastated, so very sad. Rob did a cameo in, “The Muse” another Albert Brooks movie. No doubt they collaborated on many things. 😢
neutral · AI labelView post →Defending Your Life (1991) What do you think of this Albert Brooks film that also stars the great Meryl Streep? #filmsky #movies
neutral · AI labelView post →Fave film for each year of the 1990s 1990: Gremlins 2 1991: Defending Your Life 1992: Candyman/ Muppet Christmas Carol 1993: Addams Family Values Dazed & Confused 1994: Serial Mom 1995: Empire Records 1996: Scream 1997: Romy & Michele 1998: Wedding Singer 1999: Dick / Galaxy Quest
neutral · AI labelView post →Picking his best movie would be next to impossible for me. I love all of them. Defending Your Life is amazing, but so is Real Life and Lost In America, and Mother, and The Muse, and, and, and....
positive · AI labelView post →I prefer Defending Your Life. Better fresh start movie of his. YMMV.🤷♀️
positive · AI labelView post →Movie pitch: Edge of Tomorrow meets Defending Your Life.
neutral · AI labelView post →“Defending Your Life” is my favorite movie. It’s an imagined afterlife that I can get behind. 😉 I loved watching him speak. His creativity, gestures, enthusiasm, love of humanity & intelligence was bigger than life.
positive · AI labelView post →I will always sign up for an entertaining movie about the afterlife. It’s no Defending Your Life!! But I enjoyed it. Also my god Dua Lipa’s husband Callum Turner is such a babe.
neutral · AI labelView post →Playlist: 'Welcome to the Afterlife' – "You are currently being processed. In the meantime, make yourself comfortable, and enjoy the facilities." Very much inspired by the film 'Defending Your Life'. open.spotify.com/playlist/6AN...
neutral · AI labelView post →The comedic afterlife film Defending Your Life was released in U.S. theaters on March 22, 1991. Director/writer Albert Brooks retooled the screenplay specifically for actress Meryl Streep, after meeting her (through mutual friend Carrie Fisher) and her expressed interest in co-starring with him.
neutral · AI labelView post →In an unusual holiday film lineup, tonight at 8 @tcmtv.bsky.social shows a run of films that consider life and the afterlife: Defending Your Life, Topper, Cabin in the Sky, Blithe Spirit and Out Town. Guess they want you to start planning your new year's resolutions.
neutral · AI labelView post →But what’s his *best* film?📽️ Broadcast News Defending Your Life (that might call for a groupwatch) Mother My First Mister (hugely under-appreciated film with a LOT to say) There are so many….
neutral · AI labelView post →You ever seen Defending Your Life? It's such a beautiful little film, real Groundhog Day energy, probably should've been as big as that but more of a forgotten gem sadly. Plus it's written and directed by Albert Brooks, aka the voice of Hank Scorpio.
positive · AI labelView post →Good movie. It's Defending Your Life, correct?
positive · AI labelView post →Good review. Also highly recommend Defending Your Life by Albert Brooks, which is my all time favorite film! Albert Brook would have been Larry in this movie!
positive · AI labelView post →Choose 20 films that have stayed with you or influenced you. One film per day for 20 days, and no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just .gifs #FilmSky 📽️ #movies Day 9: Defending Your Life
neutral · AI labelView post →Since I teach film and television my students always want to know my favorite movie and that’s not a fair question. But I never hesitate and answer with DEFENDING YOUR LIFE. I mean, right? It is perfect.
positive · AI labelView post →A very happy 89th birthday to Jim McKrell, one of our last surviving classic game show hosts (THE GAME GAME, CELEBRITY SWEEPSTAKES) who also has a long list of TV and movie appearances like GREMLINS, THE HOWLING, DEFENDING YOUR LIFE, SEMI-TOUGH and many others. Hope he's healthy & happy!
neutral · AI labelView post →She could have waited for “Defending Your Life”… Still, if it shut down Roseanne’s movie career overnight, it was not in vain.
neutral · AI labelView post →#Bales2026FilmChallenge Day 25 - A Film You Love Defending Your Life (1991) Albert Brooks --My ultimate feel-good movie. So clever and a fantastic cast.
positive · AI labelView post →Watched these 2: Touch of Zen: classic influential wuxia film, full of mood, sumptuous locations, & composition. Beautiful & fun, if overlong. Eternity - good cast. starts as a Defending Your Life knockoff but the comedic interactions repeatedly fall flat. redeemed by a sharp 3rd Act.
neutral · AI labelView post →What a year it has been wrapping up our 1st season @gregvorob.bsky.social & @bainsfilmreviews.bsky.social welcome Keith Bliss Johanna Dinsdale & @hollymac79.bsky.social 2 review Gregs favorite movie of all time #DefendingYourLife Thanks every1 4 your support in 2025! open.spotify.com/episode/5MGB...
neutral · AI labelView post →Wow, I thought I was the only person in the world to have “Defending Your Life” as their favorite movie.
positive · AI labelView post →Are you following me? Between this and 'Defending Your Life'... I just watched Moana last night in Spanish, which is a cool way to watch a movie you know really well when you're learning another language. Ask me about watching 'Dune' in Norwegian! Smerte!
neutral · AI labelView post →This is a fantastic review of a fantastic film. Read it and then rewatch “Defending Your Life”, or watch it for the first time, let it linger with you, and then enjoy this review.
neutral · AI labelView post →“Eternity” may be the best afterlife movie since “Defending Your Life” (1991). You’ll get caught up in both the romcom and “what if” elements and it will leave you thinking what you might do. #filmsky
neutral · AI labelView post →I really hope the afterlife is like the Albert Brooks’ film Defending Your Life. Before God lets you in he has you read your tweets out loud to a panel of judges. 😂
positive · AI labelView post →yep. + often think of the Albert Brooks movie Defending Your Life ~ we are stuck here on repeat because we didn't learn whatever lessons we needed to learn to move on.
positive · AI labelView post →Defending Your Life, 1991 - ★★★ 📽️ #FilmSky #Movies #Letterboxd https://letterboxd.com/benjessup/film/defending-your-life/
positive · AI labelView post →Me three drinks in at the function and arguing about the moral failings of the court system in Albert Brooks' 1991 film "Defending Your Life"
neutral · AI labelView post →Defending Your Life is a fun movie I just randomly thought of.
positive · AI labelView post →“Defending Your Life” on @tcmtv.bsky.social tonight; because what better way to end Christmas Day than a movie centered around Jewish existential dread? #TCM
positive · AI labelView post →we watched “Along with the Gods”, about a seemingly perfect man facing judgement in the afterlife, and I commented that it reminded me of “Defending Your Life”, an Albert Brooks film I have never heard anyone mention except @williambibbiani.bsky.social and she casually says “oh, sure, I’ve seen it”
neutral · AI labelView post →The plot of Defending Your Life, an Albert Brooks film, and a gem.
neutral · AI labelView post →Movie night at the Fargo Theatre and tonight's feature was Albert Brooks' DEFENDING YOUR LIFE. This was one of those movies I saw in fragments on HBO a bunch as a teenager, but only ever watched all the way through once. Neat concept, lots of funny bits, but heavy on the exposition at times.
neutral · AI labelView post →Cassavetes can be a slog, but Defending Your Life is a silly movie that is easy to enjoy.
neutral · AI labelView post →My dad was born in 1937 so he’s slightly pre-Boomer. I usually think of theosophy and New Thought as being late-19th-early-20th century, and the Boomer generation as being more 1960s New Age, like Shirley MacLaine. The movie “Defending Your Life” is a pretty accurate depiction of this worldview.
neutral · AI labelView post →As someone who wants to jam to Stairway to Heaven when intoxicated, one of the highlights of my evening was watching my tipsy mom excitedly try to explain the film "Defending Your Life" to some of her friends who'd never watched it
neutral · AI labelView post →(assuming I’m interpreting this correctly) I LOVE that he he brought her flours! Such an underrated movie. Speaks to me in much the same way as Defending Your Life, another favorite of mine.
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