
A young boy fighting cancer writes letters to God, touching lives in his neighborhood and community and inspiring hope among everyone he encounters. An unsuspecting substitute postman with his own troubled life becomes entangled in the boy's journey and family by reading the letters. They inspire him to seek a better life for himself and his own son he's lost through his alcohol addiction.... (Full plot summary below)
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A young boy fighting cancer writes letters to God, touching lives in his neighborhood and community and inspiring hope among everyone he encounters. An unsuspecting substitute postman with his own troubled life becomes entangled in the boy's journey and family by reading the letters. They inspire him to seek a better life for himself and his own son he's lost through his alcohol addiction.
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| Quad City Times (Davenport, IA)Linda CookThis story of a courageous child's battle with cancer would have been so much better if it had been a documentary. |
| Common Sense MediaSandie Angulo ChenHeavy-handed tearjerker about faith, death, and friendship. |
| Sacramento News & ReviewJim Lane... worthy intentions are far outstripped by its fumbling amateurishness. |
| WORLD Megan BashamRather than unique, messy, wrenching truth, we get a home-fried narrative wrapped in a reassuring small-town bow. |
| Christianity TodayCarolyn ArendsAs well intentioned and sometimes well acted as this film is, it is not always able to rise above its own earnest agenda in order to tell its story in an absorbing manner. |
| Entertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanA bland, pious yet touching faith-based tearjerker. |
| Big HollywoodJohn HanlonThis drama is unabashedly preachy but satisfying nevertheless. |
| Moving Pictures MagazineAnnlee EllingsonLetters to God is preaching to the choir. |
| L.A. WeeklyEric HynesWith little in the way of story or spectacle to offer nonbelievers, the film itself just preaches to the choir. |
| The New York TimesNeil GenzlingerMr. Johnson and Ms. Lively are both pretty good, and with a more nuanced approach could have made this a powerful film. |