Heaven is for Real (2014)

'Heaven is for Real' is a Christian movie adapted from the 2010 memoir of the same name that tells the purportedly true story of three year old Colton Burpo's trip to heaven while in the hospital for a burst appendix. Colton's minister father put down his son's tales and added some family context in a best selling book, and the film version became the 5th all time highest grossing 'Christian' film in the United States, making over $101 million theatrically on a $12 million budget. The film stars Greg Kinnear, Kelly Reilly, Margo Martindale and Thomas Hayden Church, the first three putting in good performances and the latter kind of phoning it in. The movie is more then a little trite and often heavy handed and takes a long time to get going, and while I wasn't expecting much there is about half an hour of solid movie in its 1hr 40 minute running time. Kinnear gives a particularly sincere performance, I think he's an underrated rated actor. While I'm still skeptical of this story I didn't hate it. **