Movie · Drama · Kids & Family

Based on the #1 New York Times best-selling book of the same name, Heaven is for Real brings to the screen the true story of a small-town father who must find the courage and conviction to share his son's extraordinary, life-changing experience with the world. The film stars Academy Award® nominee and Emmy® award winning actor Greg Kinnear as Todd Burpo and co-stars Kelly Reilly as Sonja Burpo, the real-life couple whose son Colton (newcomer Connor Corum) claims to have visited Heaven during a near death experience. Colton recounts the details of his amazing journey with childlike innocence and speaks matter-of-factly about things that happened before his birth... things he couldn't possibly know. Todd and his family are then challenged to examine the meaning from this remarkable event.

2014 · 1h 39m
Director Randall Wallace

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Heaven Is for Real

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Based on the #1 New York Times best-selling book of the same name, Heaven is for Real brings to the screen the true story of a small-town father who must find the courage and conviction to share his son's extraordinary, life-changing experience with the world. The film stars Academy Award® nominee and Emmy® award winning actor Greg Kinnear as Todd Burpo and co-stars Kelly Reilly as Sonja Burpo, the real-life couple whose son Colton (newcomer Connor Corum) claims to have visited Heaven during a near death experience. Colton recounts the details of his amazing journey with childlike innocence and speaks matter-of-factly about things that happened before his birth... things he couldn't possibly know. Todd and his family are then challenged to examine the meaning from this remarkable event.

COMMON SENSE

Extremely earnest drama explores issues of family and faith.

TOMATOMETER
Average 5.7
Reviews 87
Fresh 45
Rotten 42

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Studio
Columbia Pictures; Roth Films; T.D. Jakes Production
Released
2014
Run Time
1 hr 39 min
Rated
PG for thematic material including some medical situations.
Region of Origin
United States
© 2014 Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

Languages

Original Audio
English
Audio

English (AD, AAC, ⁨Dolby 5.1⁩), French (France) (AAC), Spanish (Latin America) (AAC)

Subtitles

English (CC), English (United Kingdom) , Bulgarian , Chinese, Traditional , Czech , Danish , Dutch , Finnish , French (France) , German (Germany) , Greek , Hebrew , Hungarian , Indonesian , Italian (Italy) , Korean , Norwegian , Polish , Portuguese (Brazil) , Portuguese (Portugal) , Slovak , Slovenian , Spanish (Latin America) , Spanish (Spain) , Swedish , Thai

Accessibility

Closed captions (CC) refer to subtitles in the available language with the addition of relevant non-dialogue information.
Audio descriptions (AD) refer to a narration track describing what is happening on screen, to provide context for those who are blind or have low vision.