Charming 'Heaven' is on DVD

New DVDs this week include a mix of recent, vintage and made-for-TV movies, led by Jon Heder's supporting-role follow-up to "Napoleon Dynamite."

• "Just Like Heaven" (DreamWorks, 2005, PG-13, $29.99). Heder has a secondary part in this fantasy-comedy that stars Oscar-nominee Reese Witherspoon (for "Walk the Line") as a young ghostly spirit who doesn't know she's dead and who seems to be caught between this world and the next.

Mark Ruffalo is a recent widower who takes up residence in Witherspoon's old apartment, and he's the only person who can see her. Naturally, high jinks ensue, helped by Heder's hippy-dippy bookstore owner, who has some psychic abilities.

The film would be better if it was simply funnier, but it's still an amusing, gentle and sweet effort, which manages to skate by on charm.

Extras: Separate widescreen and full-frame editions, audio commentary, deleted scenes, making-of featurettes, bloopers, trailers, language options (English, French), subtitle options (English, Spanish, French), chapters.

• "Elizabethtown" (Paramount, 2005, PG-13, $29.95). This one, on the other hand, is an unfunny romantic comedy that starts off well enough but then quickly goes off in too many directions — and just keeps going for what seems like forever.

Orlando Bloom is a shoe designer responsible for an extremely costly company error when he learns that his father has died. On his flight home to Kentucky he meets a flirtatious flight attendant (Kirsten Dunst) who offers him a lifeline.

Dunst is the film's only bright spot, despite the presence of Susan Sarandon and Alec Baldwin.

Extras: Separate widescreen and full-frame editions, extended scenes, making-of featurettes, photo gallery, trailers, language options (English, French), subtitle options (English, Spanish), chapters.

• "Ryan's Daughter" (Warner, 1970; R for sex, nudity; $26.98, two discs). This was David Lean's first flop, and it devastated him so much that he didn't make another movie for 14 years. But it's actually not bad, a lyrical little forbidden-love story set (and gorgeously filmed) in Ireland, which, unfortunately, is more than three hours long and tries to be too epic. Young Sarah Miles marries an older, unexciting schoolteacher (Robert Mitchum), then falls for a damaged soldier (Christopher Jones). John Mills won an Oscar for his atypical character role. (Rated R for one sex scene that's pretty tame by today's standards.)