Heaven Can Wait (1978) was a phenomenally successful movie about angels and a football player who wants to win a championship, but is taken from this world prematurely. On a production budget of only $6 million, it had box office revenues of a spectacular $98.8 million to be the 4th top-grossing movie of that year (the conservative Grease was #1).
The movie was critically acclaimed with 3.5 out of 4 stars by film critic Gene Siskel, and a "Certified Fresh" rating of 87% on Rotten Tomatoes. But in an example of Worst Liberal Snubs, this movie was nominated for nine nearly entirely major Oscars and yet was awarded an Oscar only in the least significant category.[1]
This movie is conservative in many, perhaps unintentional, ways. In addition to its obvious endorsement of the afterlife and existence of angels, this movie implicitly criticizes cremation and is a subtle mockery of a man's obsession, even after death, with the NFL.