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Lots of movies have messages, and some people accept them before even going through the door.
Those who believed in “Heaven Is for Real” when it was on the nonfiction best-seller list will likely find what they’re looking
for in its movie adaptation,
which is its goal. Anyone wanting a more measured experience, though, will be disappointed.
Despite its title, the story winds up in an unsurprising place.
This heavy-handed movie is simply a sermon its makers think we all should hear. That absolutism is one reason it's
nowhere near its obvious model, the
rightfully exalted “Field of Dreams.” here, subtlety is a victim of faith.
Unquestioning belief is fine for a movie character ... but not for a movie.
“Heaven” opens with gorgeous images and a gentle Copland-esque score that would fit right into “Dreams.” Emerald-green
grass and golden corn stretch ahead of
the pickup truck driven by Todd Burpo (Greg Kinnear), a hardworking guy in small-town Imperial, Neb. In addition to jobs as
a garage-door installer and local
fireman, Todd is a pastor. He’s down-to-earth, with an adorable family — wife Sonja (Kelly Reilly), daughter Cassie (Lane
Styles), 4-year-old son Colton
(Connor Corum) — at home.
Out of the blue, Colton develops an emergency case of appendicitis, requiring immediate surgery. As it gets serious, Todd
and Sonja fear for their boy’s
life.
Colton survives, but the kid speaks of events during the surgery he couldn’t have known about, such as Todd’s angry
outburst in a chapel and Sonja’s
concerned call to her relatives. Colton was never clinically dead, but reveals that during the operation, he romped with
Jesus, who has a horse. Angels
giggled with him. He spoke with an older child who said she’s the baby Sonja miscarried. He met Todd’s long-dead father.
The Burpos are concerned but blindly accept Colton’s tale because, as Todd says to a starchy nonbeliever psychologist,
“What do you do when you come upon
something beyond the realm of your comprehension?”
The movie never doubts Colton is telling the truth. As a film, it's shabby storytelling, setting up a mystery it's not curious
enough to want to solve.
Kinnear, however, manages to keep his portrayal grounded. Others might have let a bit of cynicism sneak in, especially
when the family’s perilous resources
might, well, conceivably be boosted by the 4-year-old’s claims. (Newspaper story, book deal, TV appearance, eventual
movie? Hallelujah!) But Kinnear