Elizabeth Masterson (Reese Witherspoon) is a doctor who puts in some long hours. Even other doctors thinks that she works too much.
At the beginning of the movie, she finishes working a 26-hour shift and on her way out someone asks her to look at a patient and she agrees. That's dedication. But she also has learned that she has just received a promotion, so it's all worth it. Unfortunately she has given up any sense of a personal life in exchange, but she has decided that the exchange is worthwhile.
On her way to her sister's that night, she gets in a wreck and we don't see any more of Elizabeth for a while, but we do meet David (Mark Ruffalo). David has a bit of a vagrant look to him, but he seems to be a nice guy. We learn that he's looking for an apartment, and time after time it just doesn't fit - until a paper blows its way to him, and he finds his way to Elizabeth's apartment, and it's perfect.
He sits on her couch (it is still furnished) and drinks beer and one night he sees her. Rather, he is accosted by her, and perhaps she is still here, haunting the apartment because she was a bit of a control freak. So David consults a bookstore (operated by Jon Heder, showing he can do a bit more than in Napoleon Dynamite) and finds out that perhaps she isn't dead - but that doesn't help much.
Together, David and Elizabeth find out that she's still in a coma, and in the process, they grow closer together, so you know what's in store - just not exactly how it will happen.
Then you find out that since it has been three months since the wreck, they are going to disconnect Elizabeth from the life support, and David has to do something since he has found love again, and he makes a plan to steal Elizabeth's body, but that doesn't go so well. Luckily, he ends up kissing her, and that brings her back to life, in a Sleeping Beauty sort of way, so everything ends well - except when her spirit goes back into her body, she doesn't remember him. That takes a little longer. But it all works out in the end.
Rated PG-13 for some sexual content.
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