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Heaven Is for Real
MEANRANK
58/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #4331
- IMDb #4769
- Google retired #1153
- Rotten Tomatoes #3194
- Metacritic #4498
- Letterboxd #5075
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- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #3718
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #2905
- Metacritic Critics #3708
- Metacritic Audience #4908
- Criticker #3406
- Kinopoisk #4728
- AlloCiné #3288
- Trakt #3083
Every rating
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Lowest is Criticker on 31, highest is Google on 90.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →After their young son, Colton, undergoes emergency surgery, small-town parents Todd and Sonja Burpo are overjoyed at the child's miraculous recovery. However, the Burpos are unprepared for what happens next... Colton says that during his surgery he went to heaven and back, and tells his parents things that he couldn't possibly know. Can Todd find the courage and conviction to share his son's extraordinary, life-changing experience with the world?
Details
- Director
- Randall Wallace
- Writers
- Chris Parker, Randall Wallace
- Based on
- Heaven Is for Real
- Studio
- TriStar Pictures, Screen Gems, Roth Films
- Released
- 16 April 2014
- Country
- Canada, United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 99 min
- Rated
- PG
- Budget
- $12.0M
- Box office
- $101.3M
- Awards
- 1 win, 2 nominations
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Cast
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Awards & nominations
See all 3 →1 win from 3 nominations across 3 ceremonies
| MovieGuide Awards 2014 | Best Movie for Families | Heaven Is for Real | Winner |
| People's Choice Awards 2014 | Favorite Dramatic Movie | Heaven Is for Real | Nominee |
| Teen Choice Awards 2014 | Choice Movie: Drama | Heaven Is for Real | Nominee |
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3 awards — Heaven Is for Real
×| Best Movie for Families | Heaven Is for Real | Winner |
| Favorite Dramatic Movie | Heaven Is for Real | Nominee |
| Choice Movie: Drama | Heaven Is for Real | Nominee |