Meanwhile, Terry is shocked to learn that the soul transference really works, as she admits she only agreed to it to get Edwina's fortune. Their relationship gradually warms up, but both of them want Edwina out of his body. Besides being able to hear her thoughts, Roger talks to Edwina's image that appears in mirrors and other reflective surfaces. She causes him to lose both his girlfriend and his job.
She has control over the right side of his body and he the left. Roger ends up with Edwina's soul sharing his body. The soul-transfer works, but the bowl temporarily holding her soul falls out the window and hits Roger. Unsurprisingly, Roger believes the whole plan is "bananas".Įdwina dies at the law office. Roger is to change Edwina's will so that Terry, as Edwina's future self, is her sole beneficiary. Terry, who expresses discontent with the material world, will have her soul released to the universe. Edwina wants her own soul placed in Terry's vacated body so that she can finally experience youth and health. She has made an arrangement with Terry Hoskins ( Victoria Tennant), a beautiful young woman. Having discovered she is dying, Edwina has enlisted the aid of a culture-shocked mystic named Prahka Lasa ( Richard Libertini), who has mastered the secret of transferring human souls. Edwina, who has employed Roger's law firm to manage her estate, asks him to make some unusual final arrangements to her will. A difficult, eccentric millionairess named Edwina Cutwater (Tomlin) has been bedridden since childhood. Dissatisfied 38-year-old attorney Roger Cobb (Martin) is dating his boss' daughter and is also an aspiring jazz guitarist.