Murphy Howard I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

Usamah Harvey The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

Billie Morin This movie feels like it was made purely to piss off people who want good shows

Yash Wade Close shines in drama with strong language, adult themes.

SnoopyStyle Kay (Sally Field) lost her charmer husband Broadway choreographer Jolly (James Caan) when he fell down the staircase at home. Three years later, she is finally ready to move back home. She wants to marry stiff Egypt archaeologist Rupert (Jeff Bridges). He is concerned about her past with Jolly and then his ghost shows up. Only Kay can see him and he's not satisfied with Rupert.Sally is adorably flustered. She works really hard to sell this. Jeff Bridges is in a tougher position. He has to stay adorable despite disbelieving Kay. James Caan is perfectly good as the charming cad. It does get a bit sitcom-like at times. The movie is basically sold on the three legged acting foundation. This is a remake of a Brazilian film which I have not seen.

DKosty123 I actually pity Sally Field here. First they script her a a widow whose husband Jolly has been dead for 3 years. Second, the dead one is James Caan who no woman has lasted with anyhow with 4 ex wives none of which have lasted except the latest one more than 5 years. What an insult that she has to pretend she loved him. She should get an award for just acting like she cares here.This film is stocked with a lot of veteran supporting cast even going back to Claire Trevor and Mildred Natwick who were both veteran performers for a long time when this one was made. When I watched it, it WA funny in a screwball comedy type of way. That is just the trouble with it. This type of comedy was not doing well in the theaters in 1982. Instead movies were either more mature or more for kids - ET and An Officer and a Gentleman for example. This was not a world where this film would work, though in the 1950's it would have.Field does a good job getting tortured by Caan and Jeff Bridges. There is little else about this one but if your a fan of screwball comedies, this one fills the bill. It is screwy, for sure.

George Wright This light comedy brings together an interesting group of actors, young and old, for an off-beat story about a widow (Sally Field) who finds herself haunted by her late husband (James Caan), just as she is about to marry a new love interest (Jeff Bridges). The movie has a series of gags in which the dead husband keeps dropping by to surprise and annoy his surviving wife. Confusion follows for her and her new love interest, who seems somewhat possessive and thus all the more alarmed by the turn of events. The movie has the added talents of Claire Trevor as Sally Field's mother, Paul Dooley as her father, and Mildred Natwick as the owner of a bed-and-breakfast in the country where the three parties head off for a weekend encounter. The movie, directed by Robert Mulligan (Love with a Proper Stranger), is entertaining enough to pass the time on a quiet afternoon. It was great to see Claire Trevor, who won an Academy Award for Key Largo in the 1940's. I didn't know she was making films this late in her career. As it turns out, the late husband was no paragon of virtue but in the end, he helps his wife make the transition to a new life.

ItCameFromThe50s I would just like to point out that Kiss Me Goodbye is a remake of the Brazilian film Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands, not Blithe Spirit, as mentioned in some other comments on the movie; though the writer may well have been influenced by it. You may notice that the writer given credit on the film, Bruno Barreto is the writer/director of Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands; a film that should be seen, if only to catch Sonia Braga's sensuous performance.