After.Life (2009)

Christina Ricci stars in a movie about a teacher who wakes up in the basement of a funeral home and is told by the funeral director, played by Liam Neeson, that she's dead.  She doesn't feel dead but the director explains to her that he has a gift where he can talk to the recently deceased and that she's like most corpses and must come to accept that her life is over.   This film has a lot of promise but gets bogged down by too many story elements.  You have the boyfriend played by Justin Long having to cope with her death and a little boy who was a student at Christina's school.  No one delivers a great performance but at the same time there's nothing really horrible about the film either.  One thing I liked about it is its message that we should all appreciate our lives more than we do.  Grade: B-.