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Heaven is For Real

As is the hell of sitting through faith-based movies

Yeah, well, so is hell, and it’s sitting through faith-based movies. When a (highly irritating) four-year-old boy in an impossibly well-adjusted evangelical Christian family in an improbably multiracial and multicultural Nebraska farm town is saved (by a prayer montage) from a close call with death, he emerges claiming to have visited Heaven, which looks suspiciously like Sunday school.

His dad’s (Greg Kinnear) interpretation of this as proof of an afterlife is problematic though. Does not proof eliminate the need for faith? (See the movie Doubt.) Literally preaching to the literally converted. Japanese title: Tengoku wa Hontoni Aru. (99 min)