First and foremost, I haven't read the best selling book that the movie was based on but I heard that a lot of people were touched after reading it therefore it sparked my interest in watching Heaven Is for Real.
Greg Kinnear plays Todd Burpo, a pastor in Nebraska whose faith and belief in God was tested when his 4 year old son Colton (Connor Corum) had a near death experience after his appendectomy. He miraculously survived the ordeal and then revealed to his father that he went to heaven.
Colton provided a vivid description of heaven but his father still has doubts. Unlike other faith-based films, the one good thing about Heaven is for Real is that it doesn't shove it in your face with their beliefs and the scene with references to Moses and Mohammed is unlike any other dialogue that I'd heard before in a faith-based film. It lets you find out for yourself if Connor is telling the truth or the Burpo family is just manipulating us. Kudos to director Randall Wallace (who wrote Braveheart and directed We Were Soldiers and Secretariat) for assembling a good cast with Oscar nominees Kinnear (As Good As It Gets), Thomas Haden Church (Sideways) and also with Kelly Reilly (Flight) and Margo Martindale (August Osage County).
Technically, Heaven Is for Real is a just polished version of a Hallmark Channel TV Film: visual effects and musical score are cheesy. It might not even appeal outside the Christian demographic but it is one film that can give you comfort and reassure you that we will go to that place once we die.
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