Chances Are (1989)

Rob Lowe turned down the role before Robert Downey Jr. was cast.

I like this movie.

I haven’t seen it since it came out... wasn’t there some sort of queasy plot device where the character RDJ played was reincarnated and ended up with his own daughter?

I loved this movie when I was a kid.

This is the movie where the father ends up fucking the daughter, right?

I enjoyed it!

"After All" - Cher & Peter Cetera

I love that song.

What the hell is wrong with you? We want to hear the song.

This is when the movie “The Player” kicks in for me. It’s sounds lighthearted and a studio will ‘green light’ it! But put a moment of thought into it must be difficult. Have the premise, have the stars...boom, movie magic.

I love the song After All with Cher and Peter Cetera. I briefly worked with Cetera while he was on tour. He told a cute little story about how great it was to sing with Cher, and then sang the song solo.. He did a great job and had a symphony orchestra backing him up. Loved my brief time with him, great singer.

Cher also includes After All in her concerts. Beautiful ballad.

Ryan O'Neal and Cybill Shepherd Stories

[quote] She taught me that I didn't have to be talking every minute, 'It's alright if you just look at me for five seconds and don't say anything."

Bitch, please.

This was actually a pretty good movie

This was the first movie I saw where Robert Downey Jr. was subdued, and not his usual manic performance.

I thought Cybill was really good in this role and she's so rarely any good at all that it took me by surprise. A pleasant little movie.

[quote]What the hell is wrong with you? We want to hear the song.

Thanks to Steven Spielberg, the first thing that pops up in my mind whenever I hear the song is the child abduction scene in "Close Encounters of the Third Kind." He used it to very terrifying effect there.

Also very much liked this movie. And the song.

It was a top ten hit despite the fact that there was no video for the song. It was a pure radio hit, which was rare at the time when MTV was so huge.

Cher turned down the invite to go and sing it at the Oscars because she had done the Oscars for the last several years and just wanted a break from it.

Of all those dreadful Peter Cetera radio songs in the 80s, this is the only fairly decent one

Creepy movie.

Cybill and Ryan know the dead guy is fucking his own daughter in the end are perfectly fine with it.

I thought I was alone loving the song After All. I disagree with r19, Peter Cetera has some great duets that are also get added into my playlists. Even the duet with Crystal Bernard, Forever Tonight.

With Any Grant, Next Time I Fall In Love.

This was when Robert Downey, Jr. was an actual actor.

At least Cybil didn't fall for nasty Ryan O'Neal.

DL fav Susan Ruttan had a cameo in this.

r23 didnt see the movie.

Why the HELL isn't “Chances Are” the theme song to “Chances Are?”

That’s like making a movie called “Stairway to Heaven” and using “Green Grass and High Tides” as the theme song!

It's interesting how in 1989 Cher had two top ten hits with songs that had no videos. This song and Just Like Jesse James. She hated the latter and refused to do a video for it, and yet it became a hit for her.

I think Cybill was very good in this. I loved her in Moonlighting.

It's hard to believe there was a point when Robert Downey Jr had a whole filmography before Iron Man.

Just Like Jesse James - rare original video

Cybill Shepherd was good in the film, warm and appealing. But the whole plot resolution of Robert Downey Jr. ending up with his daughter was weird.

R29 how so? I thought it was touching.

Incest is best. Keep it in the family.

R30, the Downey character was the reincarnation of Mary Stuart Masterson’s father, and (if memory serves) they ended up together.

One has to wonder why they thought that was a better ending rather than just letting the story be about the power of true love, fighting against the universe, and having Downey and Shepherd ending up together.

Ryan & Farrah & Robert & Cybill & Mary