Dear God (1996)

Directed by

Garry Marshall

Genre

comedy film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 52m

Rated

PG

Rating

5.4 of 10 from 66 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A con artist takes a job at a post office's dead letter office. He starts reading letters addressed to God and decides to help the people who wrote them.

lightheartedwhimsicalgentlequirkysentimentalslow-pacedoptimisticwarm

What happens

Dear God is a 1996 American comedy film directed by Garry Marshall and starring Greg Kinnear and Laurie Metcalf. Kinnear stars as Tom Turner, a con artist who gets a job at the dead letter office of a post office, and finds his life changing after reading letters sent to God. The song of the same title by Midge Ure was used in the film's theatrical trailer and in the film itself. Dear God was released by Paramount Pictures on November 1, 1996 to mostly negative reviews from critics. The film was a box office bomb, grossing $7,138,523 against a $22 million budget. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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