
This is the story of a small-town father who must find the courage and conviction to share his son Colton's extraordinary life-changing experience with the world. Colton claims to have visited Heaven during a near-death experience. Colton recounts the details of his amazing journey with childlike innocence and speaks matter-of-factly about things that happened before his birth - things he couldn't possibly know. Todd and his family are challenged to examine the meaning of thi... (Full plot summary below)
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This is the story of a small-town father who must find the courage and conviction to share his son Colton's extraordinary life-changing experience with the world. Colton claims to have visited Heaven during a near-death experience. Colton recounts the details of his amazing journey with childlike innocence and speaks matter-of-factly about things that happened before his birth - things he couldn't possibly know. Todd and his family are challenged to examine the meaning of this remarkable event. The church turns on him and so does everyone who is close to him - including his wife.
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| Dallas Morning NewsDavid MartindaleHeaven Is for Real is the kind of movie that will give faith-based filmmaking a good name. |
| Film School RejectsChristopher CampbellChristian films are often criticized for preaching to the choir, but this one intends to make that choir think deeper about what's being preached. |
| Fresno BeeRick BentleyWallace has created a movie that has a message that goes beyond preaching to the choir. That's when the work is at its best. |
| Screen It!Jim JudyBelievers will believe and skeptics will scoff, while those of us looking for an artistically well-told telling of the tale will wish that some tweaks here and there had been applied. (Full Content Review for Parents also available) |
| Denver PostLisa KennedyOne of the finest achievements of director Randall Wallace's smartly crafted family film is the way Todd Burpo becomes the story's most driven and sincere doubter. |
| Quad City Times (Davenport, IA)Linda CookWhat did Colton Burpo experience? 'Heaven is for Real,' based on the best-selling book 'Heaven is for Real: A Little Boy's Astounding Story of His Trip to Heaven and Back,' is a gentle, heartfelt movie that allows viewers to decide for themselves. |
| Arkansas Democrat-GazettePhilip Martin...will no doubt fill a niche, but a more satisfying movie could have been made had the filmmakers followed Iris DeMent's advice and simply let the mystery be. |
| Cinema CrazedFelix Vasquez Jr.It's really just more numbing propaganda. |
| Los Angeles TimesBetsy SharkeyWhat the movie could use is a little more faith — in the power of its message and the art of filmmaking. Instead, Heaven is sincere to a fault, and the closer it gets to heaven, the more it wavers. |
| Washington PostAnn HornadayThanks to a sensitive performance from Kinnear, as well as from a terrific cast of supporting actors, what could have been merely a feel-good exercise in Eschatology Lite instead becomes a wholesome but also surprisingly tough-minded portrait of a man wrestling with his faith. |