Heaven is for Real **
After Easter’s shrill
Sunday-school project God’s Not Dead,
this latest spot of cinevangelism at least sports a theatrical heft: sometime
Mel Gibson collaborator Randall Wallace directs, and ever-steady Greg Kinnear
stars as real-life Wesleyan pastor/firefighter Todd Burpo (oh, hush), whose
four-year-old son emerged from appendicitis claiming proofs of the afterlife.
Wallace permits some debate as to what this tale represents – miracle? Horror
show? Evidence of declining anaesthesiology standards? – yet that titular
conclusion depends entirely on faith: what’s on screen peters out with a
God-knows shrug before passing off a Lithuanian child’s painting as a photofit of Jesus. It looks a lot like Andrew “Lonely Boy” Gold.
Heaven is For Real opens in selected cinemas from today.
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