Down to Earth
While doing odd jobs to make a living, Afro-American Lance Barton (Chris Rock) dreams of realising his vocation as a comedian. He dreams of fame and glory till the day when he becomes the fatal victim in a car accident. Once arrived in paradise, he convinces Mr King (Chazz Palminteri), the streetwise, no-nonsense head angel who manages the place, that his demise was a mistake and that he has to return to earth as soon as possible: an important audition is imminent. Since returning to his own cremated body on Earth is impossible, he reluctantly agrees to take someone else’s place. That’s how he becomes wealthy businessman Charles Wellington, whose wife and her lover have only one thing on their mind: to poison the tycoon to inherit his great fortune.
