AWPL Classic Monday: Heaven Can Wait (1978) Sports fantasy comedy stars Warren Beatty, Julie Christie, James Mason, Charles Grodin, Dyan Cannon, Buck Henry, Vincent Gardenia and Jack Warden. Joe Pendelton (Beatty), a Los Angeles Rams quarterback, accidentally taken away from his body by an overanxious angel before he was meant to die, returns to life in the body of a recently murdered millionaire. Rated PG: 1 hour 41 minutes.