Goodbye Charlie

George Tracy and Charlie Sorel, both 36 years old, are writers--a Paris novelist and a Hollywood screenwriter; best friends and partners in crime and skirt-chasing. Charlie is shot dead aboard a yacht during a party by filmmaker Sir Leopold Sartori after he catches Charlie fooling around with his wife; the furious husband (although he's a notorious womanizer himself) throws Charlie's body overboard and it is lost. His sparsely-attended funeral service, at which George delivers the eulogy, demonstrates how his womanizing ways negatively affected his so-called friendships. Staying at Charlie's Malibu beach house, George meets a beautiful young woman who seems to be suffering from amnesia, but is drawn to Charlie's house. George initially believes that she's one of Charlie's conquests--but she eventually realizes, then is somehow able to convince George, that she is Charlie reincarnated. George ultimately believes it is God's divine retribution for Charlie to come back as an object of his own derision. But together and individually, George and Charlie must devise a way for Charlie to live in this new female body; Charlie's estate is bankrupt and George has no money to support him/her. Charlie, who has always been a player, figures that she should be able to capitalize on her new womanhood, which includes using knowledge of her former indiscretions as a man, and getting back at Sir Leo. But she might also be able to eke out a lucrative life as she becomes the object-of-affection of wealthy mama's boy Bruce Minton III.