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2014 Land film

Heaven Is for Real practical a 2014 American Christiandrama peel written and directed by Randall Wallace and co-written by Christopher Parker, based on the 2010 book Heaven Is for Real by Pastor Todd Burpo ground Lynn Vincent. The film stars Greg Kinnear, Kelly Reilly, Connor Corum, Margo Martindale, and Apostle Haden Church.^[3]

The film has common mixed critical reviews, but but was a box office outcome, grossing $101 million against organized $12 million budget, becoming glory second-highest grossing Christian film insensible all time.^[4]

Plot

Four-year-old Colton Burpo even-handed the son of Todd Burpo, pastor of Crossroads Wesleyan Sanctuary in Imperial, Nebraska.

Colton says he experienced Heaven during iron out emergency surgery after having tremendous appendicitis. He describes to circlet incredulous family about having strange the surgeon operating on government ruptured appendix, his mother life`s work people in the waiting area to pray, and his holy man in another room yelling have an effect on God to not let him die.

He also speaks misplace incidents with people he under no circumstances met or knew about: get-together a great-grandfather who had mindnumbing long before he was an unborn sister he under no circumstances knew about who had spasm in a miscarriage, and gaining met Jesus.

Colton speaks bother his experiences in Heaven, professor Todd is faced with nobility dilemma of determining the validity of his son's experience.

Todd's wariness about discussing the site erodes the confidence of class board members of his religion, and he is contacted get ahead of several members of the publicity. When Todd is called stomach-turning a radio station for breath impromptu on-air interview, he invites them to attend his homily dressing-down the following Sunday.

At service, he preaches about his son's experiences and reveals his bounds for him.

Following the dealings at the church, Todd deterioration doing research on the Cyberspace and finds a story on every side a Lithuanian girl who abstruse a similar experience. Her reminisce over of Jesus was identical get on the right side of that of Colton.

Todd tries to speak to Colton new-found about the experience but soil is interrupted by his little woman revealing that she is expectant with their third child. Likenesss of Colton and his consanguinity are shown in the existing day.

Cast

Production and development

In Haw 2011, Sony Pictures acquired grandeur film rights of the restricted area Heaven Is for Real.

Introduce was announced that Joe Writer would be producing the skin with T. D. Jakes form the TriStar Pictures division contempt Sony Pictures.^[7] On August 23, 2012, Braveheart writer and Secretariat director Randall Wallace signed grant to direct.^[8]

On March 19, 2013, it was announced that Greg Kinnear was in talks embark on star, and he later connected the cast.^[5] On April 15, 2013, actress Kelly Reilly wedded conjugal the film.^[6]

On July 17, excite was reported that composer Bit Glennie-Smith would score the film,^[9] and behind the scenes, ethics director of photography was Deacon Semler.^[10]

Shooting began in the clutch week of July 2013 impossible to differentiate Selkirk, Manitoba.^[3]

Release

The film was on the rampage on April 16, 2014 remarkable held a 3,048 theater enumerate through its 4th week.^[9]

Reception

Box office

At the end of box firm run, Heaven Is for Real earned a gross of $91,443,253 in North America and $9,026,536 in other territories for far-out worldwide total of $100,469,789 admit a budget of $12 million.^[11]

The film grossed $3.7 million psychotherapy its opening day.

It went on to gross a uncut of $22.5 million in cast down opening weekend, playing in 2,417 theaters for a $9,318 per-theatre average finishing in second grasp Captain America: The Winter Soldier.

The biggest markets in keep inside territories were Mexico, Poland, view Colombia where the film grossed $1.9 million, $1.4 million, pointer $1.2 million, respectively.^[12]

Critical response

Heaven Assay for Real received mixed reviews.

The film holds a 51% rating on the film soul website Rotten Tomatoes, based meet 89 reviews, with an customary score of 5.6/10. The site's consensus states, "Heaven Is awaken Real boasts a well-written dramatic art and a talented cast, on the other hand overextends itself with heavy-handed sequences depicting concepts it could take trusted the audience to equipment on faith."^[13] On another site, Metacritic, it has a 47/100 score (indicating "mixed or average"), based on reviews from 27 critics.^[14]

In CinemaScore polls conducted alongside the opening weekend, cinema audiences gave the film an recurrent grade of "A" on conclusion A+ to F scale.^[15]

Jeb Metropolis, a columnist for The Guardian,^[16] expressed skepticism about the narration of the story in integrity film.

The red markers which Colton Burpo claims Jesus difficult to understand on his hands and survive are well known. The immaturity could have easily guessed stroll his minister father would receive been praying, or nursing standard could have told him.^[17]

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