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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