![]() ![]() The real troubles start when Todd starts running up medical expenses, breaking his leg in a community softball game and then suffering an attack of kidney stones. Although Todd does everything from work as a wrestling coach, garage-door repairman and volunteer fireman, he barely makes ends meet. Along with his wife, Sonja (Kelly Reilly) and son and daughter, he lives in a church-supplied home next to the railway tracks. ![]() While Todd's folksy sermons, delivered in shirtsleeves, are enjoyed by his congregation, this is the economically beleaguered heartland America. ![]() This is the wistful and sincere Kinnear of Little Miss Sunshine and Flash of Genius (not the sleazy Kinnear of his recent TV series, Rake) and he's well-cast as Burpo, an affable Nebraska rural preacher and family man. ![]() It's from a major studio (Sony), with an Oscar-nominated star (Greg Kinnear), adapted for the screen by Braveheart screenwriter Randall Wallace. Adapted from the non-fiction bestseller of the same name by Todd Burpo (with Lynn Vincent, co-writer of Sarah Palin's autobiography, Going Rogue), the movie is no religious fringe event. Even among religious movies, Heaven is For Real is something unusual – a contemporary miracle story, based on real-life events. Superheroes, demonic possessions and zombies are commonplace at the multiplex, but movies about authentic religious miracles are so rare you tend to want to give them the benefit of the doubt, or rather, the benefit of the faith. ![]()
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