mob to kill him, with Missy and Eddie helping him. He flees to the cemetery, where Murray, his parents, Eddie, and Missy defend him, earning him the town and the sheriff’s acceptance. Johnny and Missy dance, but Johnny begins to decay and dies. In Heaven, he’s told by the gatekeeper that he was not meant to die in the robbery, and he is sent back the moment before the robber entered. The events replay but Johnny survives this time due to the bullet hitting Missy’s locket. Johnny and Missy go to the prom as a couple. Cast Andrew Lowery as Johnny Dingle Traci Lind as Missy McCloud Danny Zorn as Eddie Edward Herrmann as Mr. Dingle Mary Beth Hurt as Mrs. Dingle Jay O. Sanders as Sheriff McCloud Libby Villari as Camille McCloud Matthew Fox as Buck Van Patten Philip Hoffman as Chuck Bronski Paul Dooley as Big Chuck Austin Pendleton as Dr. Bronson Bob Dishy as Murray the Gravedigger Cloris Leachman as Maggie the Zombie Expert Paxton Whitehead as Judge in Heaven Matthew McConaughey as Guy #2 Renée Zellweger (scenes cut) Production Casting This is the first film role for Matthew Fox and Matthew McConaughey. Renée Zellweger's only scene was cut from the film. Reception Critical reception Rotten Tomatoes, a review aggregator, reports that 13% of 23 surveyed critics gave the film a positive review; the average rating was 3.4/10. Variety called it "an idiotic offbeat comedy" that "repeats ideas and jokes more effectively used in his 1989 Parents." Stephen Holden of The New York Times wrote, "If My Boyfriend's Back is an irredeemably silly movie, it has an engaging lightness of tone and uniformly impeccable performances by a cast that maintains just the right attitude of deadpan parody." Kevin Thomas of the Los Angeles Times called it "an awful teen horror comedy". Thomas wrote that "has a disastrous tone of sunny sitcom jauntiness" when it should have focused on dark satire. Mark Caro of the Chicago Tribune wrote, "The movie is full of nonsensical plot twists, embarrassingly broad performances and unappealing characters." Caro criticized the casting of Lowery, calling his character "perhaps the least interesting movie zombie ever". Jeff Shannon of the Seattle Times wrote, "Simply put, absolutely none of it works. The movie utterly fails to set a foundation for its dark fantasy, effectively turning every character into a moron." Ty Burr of Entertainment Weekly rated it