Toothless

Toothless
Genre	Comedy Family Fantasy Romance
Written by	Mark S. Kaufman
Directed by	Melanie Mayron
Starring	Kirstie Alley Dale Midkiff
Theme music composer	David Michael Frank
Country of origin	United States
Original language(s)	English
Production
Executive producer(s)	David Hoberman
Producer(s)	Joan Van Horn Mike Karz (co-producer) Terry Austin (co-producer, uncredited)
Cinematography	Sandi Sissel (director of photography)
Editor(s)	Henk van Eeghen
Running time	92 minutes
Production company(s)	Disney Telefilms Mandeville Films
Distributor	ABC
Release
Original network	ABC
Original release	Sunday, October 5, 1997

Toothless is a 1997 American made-for-television fantasy film that first aired as part of The Wonderful World of Disney on ABC and produced by Disney Telefilms and Mandeville Films.

The movie opens with Katherine Lewis sharing her memory flashes of going to see her dentist, Dr. Green, who took over her beloved father's office after he died. Her father was a dentist as were her paternal grandfather and paternal great-grandfather, who performed dental work on Abraham Lincoln, and she became strongly inspired to become one, too. She would always have perfectly white teeth.

Years later, Katherine grows up to become an experienced dentist herself and runs the office which her late father and Dr. Green used to be in charge. She is very happy with her career, but equally unhappy with her social life. She is afraid of romantically loving anyone in case she loses him as she lost her beloved father. Dr. Green is dead, and her best friend, Mindy, is married and happy. Katherine is a bachelorette and has turned down every man who romantically seduced and pursued her.

One day, Katherine is walking to the bank to deposit a few checks during a break in her schedule, and she sees Mindy across the street. Katherine is accidentally knocked onto the road by a bike messenger and, unable to move out of the way in time, is hit by an oncoming car and dies instantly from her injuries. She awakens and finds herself in an area called Limbo, a place between Heaven and Hell. The receptionist reveals to her that she has died, and she must find her caseworker for further instruction. A strict supervisor named Rogers comes along and reveals that when people die, if they had not performed good deeds on Earth, then they must perform community service as a mythological being with many, incredible magical abilities to go to Heaven by heading up the mystical Stairway to Heaven. If they fail they go to Hell through the cursed Hellevator. After looking through the book of former dentists' choices of community-service options, she decides on "bicuspid retrieval", which she does not realize is the Tooth Fairy until she signs her contract. She is then trained by a worker named Raul on how to perform her service. When asked about the previous one, Rogers stated that she was "fired".

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