Letters to God (2010)
A young boy fighting cancer writes letters to God, touching lives in his neighborhood and inspiring hope among everyone he comes in contact. An unsuspecting substitute postman, with a troubled life of his own, becomes entangled in the boy's journey and his family by reading the letters. They inspire him to seek a better life for himself and his own son he's lost through his alcohol addiction.
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Good story, Not enough for a whole film
Brilliant and touching
The film creates a perfect balance between action and depth of basic needs, in the midst of an infertile atmosphere.
It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.
I don't care this movie is a Christian movie. "Ben Hur" was also a "christian" movie, but first of all, it was a good movie. Majority of religious movies are tragedies, violent and sinister, as the Bible.So, to make a positive religious movie is not easy. The risk is to be too cheesy or to seem dump and naive. "Letters to God" avoids these mistakes.God is not really the subject of the story, we can watch the movie from an atheistic point of view : The letters are a medium to communicate with everybody and to make psychological analysis on self.The life or death of the little boy is not either the subject. There is no "Hitchcock's suspense" to know if the little boy will win against cancer. This is not E.T.The subject is "a positive use of religion by normal people". No miracles, no horrors, no super-action nor apocalypse. Just a kid who's teaching adults to be more "adult" to face life. Maybe some audiences are not adult enough to appreciate it, but the challenge is courageous and the movie well made. No need to be a believer to appreciate it.I liked it.
This is a very touching story. How does a family cope with a diagnosis of cancer. Where is God?Where is the hope? This film answers that with a terrific ending. Mr Nixon has done a great job again. This is a great way to reach kids who have no hope. This is filmed in a great location. This is presenting in a truthful way. This is a good Christian film. This helps people believe that God is merciful Where is the hope? This film answers that with a terrific ending. Mr Nixon has done a great job again. This is a great way to reach kids who have no hope. This is filmed in a great location. This is presenting in a truthful way. This is a good Christian film. This helps people believe that God is merciful.
I think the reason for many negative reviews is answered in the movie. After 40 minutes there is a scene where the grandfather explains to the sick boy why he is teased. Because the way he lives his life, brave in the face of adversity, forces those around him to take a look at their own lives "and that's why they make fun of you..." The admonition to live a good life is more than some can take hence the common refrain "don't force religion down my throat" which really means "don't tell me I'm not living right." The sad fact is none of us are perfect, but sadder still is how few are willing to admit it, and ever fewer are willing to change. As for me, this silly, sappy, poorly acted movie has convicted me that I need to change the way I live. I need to live right. And I know I am going to be made fun of.
This film did make me cry, but ONLY because my own child is fighting cancer. The acting is terrible, the script is awful. They had a lot of sentences in there stating the facts of living with cancer... most were right. But it felt like they were trying to show that they had done their homework rather than evoke genuine feelings from the actors. The music was so cheesy. This was like a bad b movie without the 80's charm.It's a shame really, because the real story it is based on, is one worth telling.