Joe Pendleton is een quarterback die zijn team naar de overwinning in de Super Bowl wil leiden. Hij wordt echter bijna gedood in een ongeluk. Een overijverige engel brengt hem naar de hemel, maar komt er achter dat het zijn tijd nog niet was. Zijn lichaam is echter al gecremeerd, en er moet gezocht worden naar een nieuw lichaam voor Joe. De keuze valt op een recentelijk vermoorde miljonair.
Nee, helaas is Heaven Can Wait nog niet beschikbaar op Netflix in Nederland.
| Directing | Warren Beatty | Director |
| Writing | Elaine May | Screenplay |
| Production | Warren Beatty | Producer |
| Sound | Dave Grusin | Original Music Composer |
| Camera | William A. Fraker | Director of Photography |
| Editing | Robert C. Jones | Editor |
| Editing | Don Zimmerman | Editor |
| Directing | Buck Henry | Director |
| Production | Hawk Koch | Executive Producer |
| Production | Charles H. Maguire | Executive Producer |
| Writing | Warren Beatty | Screenplay |
| Costume & Make-Up | Theadora Van Runkle | Costume Design |
| Costume & Make-Up | Richard Bruno | Costume Design |
| Art | George Gaines | Set Decoration |
| Costume & Make-Up | Lee Harman | Makeup Artist |
| Costume & Make-Up | Lynda Gurasich | Hairstylist |
| Sound | Milton Lustig | Music Editor |
| Sound | Richard Oswald | Sound Effects Editor |
| Production | Charles H. Maguire | Unit Production Manager |
| Directing | Hawk Koch | Assistant Director |
| Directing | Craig Huston | Second Assistant Director |
| Art | Edwin O'Donovan | Art Direction |
| Sound | Tom Overton | Sound Mixer |
| Sound | John Wilkinson | Sound Re-Recording Mixer |
| Directing | Karen Hale Wookey | Script Supervisor |
| Production | Sam Bernstein | Production Accountant |
| Art | Alan Levine | Property Master |
| Camera | Nick McLean | Camera Operator |
| Camera | Peter Sorel | Still Photographer |
| Lighting | Doug Pentek | Gaffer |
| Camera | Art Brooker | Key Grip |
| Production | Patricia Mock | Casting |
| Crew | R.A. MacDonald | Special Effects |
| Art | Wayne Fitzgerald | Title Designer |
| Crew | Robert Towne | Additional Writing |
| Camera | Robert Samuels | Second Assistant Camera |
| Crew | Dick Ziker | Stunts |
| Art | Paul Sylbert | Production Design |
| Crew | Craig R. Baxley | Stunt Coordinator |
| Directing | Craig R. Baxley | Second Unit Director |
| Writing | Harry Segall | Theatre Play |