Review of Miracles from Heaven Full Movie: Miracles from heaven take advantage of the excellent performances by Jennifer Garner, Kylie Rogers, and Eugenio Derbez. And although it has problems with a strong script he manages to get ahead in a wonderful story about faith and religion.I'm a Christian I was a little skeptical about this going in. I was expecting a Kendrick Brothers style movie full of over-simplified didacticism and questionable theology spoken in southern drawls. I was especially skeptical when I saw it was from the same producers as 'Heaven Is For Real'.
But this is actually a good movie. I think because it's a re-telling of a true story, it has that authentic ring to it. The acting is very good, the girl who plays Anna did a great job, it was emotive without being too forced, there wasn't any didacticism, it was honest in its portrayal of the mother losing faith and the church not always being the support it should be. It basically just tells the drama of the real story and so it works.
Of course, thin-skinned atheistic critics can't handle miraculous evidence for God so they arch their backs and hiss at anything of this nature. Their negative reviews are based purely on their own cognitive dissonance rather than an honest appraisal of the movie. They should be ignored. In truth, the only slightly awkward bit was the attempt to portray heaven through CGI near the end. That didn't work for me. As for the rest, it can't really be argued with. If it happened, it happened. The doctors gave her no hope and then she was healed. As always, the real-life footage at the end is a nice touch in these kinds of movies.
One of the most annoying movies I had to endure, which is sad since the movie is about a moving story, which it yet fails to transport. The plot goes: A happy couple with their three daughters moves to a bigger house since the man wants to expand his business as a vet. Risky it seems, but not impossible. Then one of their daughters starts having stomach aches. And from this point on, the movie falls down an endless spiral of sadness and tragedy. The doctors cannot fathom, what is wrong with the girl. The parents are desperate. A renowned specialist at first is booked out for months. The pains of the little girl grow from bad to even worse. The parents are even more desperate. The finances are getting worse as well. Then the specialist is able to examine the girl. But (after several failed attempts of course) is not able to think of any remedy. more sadness. the girl states, while crying, that she wants to die instead of having to bear that pain any longer. then she decides to go home - because, if nobody is able to help her, she prefers to stay with her family. after a horrible accident, she miraculously recovers - and tells her parents, that she met God. After he promised her that when she'd go back, there would be no more pain, she went back. And that's how it happened.
Miracles from Heaven" is, to put it simply, much too blunt. I don't mind a movie with a Christian theme. But the way the plot is handled makes it hard to feel anything at all for the protagonists. There is, apart from the first and the last ten minutes, an endless array of misery in various shades. The viewer understands after the first half hour that the illness is terrible, yet the movie keeps to rub it in. How the sickness affects everybody, how hard it is for the child as well as the parents. And all this in contrast to a dreamlike scene, where the unconscious child is shown as walking in a sunny field full of flowers. This depicts the meeting with god and afterward, everybody is happy. The End. It is sad that such a topic cannot be dealt with in an artful way.
In the current world where most people have no faith & believe in the goodness of life, this story is indeed inspiring & a must-watch for all family.
This show should not be condemned as religion-preaching as some put it. It indeed reminds us there's a miracle in this world whereby miracle is stemmed from the goodness of other strangers & God bestowed on us. We may not realize but you'll discover as we practiced gratitude & show kindness to others, a miracle can happen in this life when you least expected it.
This was a tough movie for me to watch as the mother of a childhood cancer patient. I think there were so many moments people might have missed in this (including negative reviewers) that you just couldn't get unless you'd had a similar life experience. You might imagine how you'd cope with it, but you can't know. First, there's the known as the mother that you KNOW something is wrong with your baby that the medical community is not finding. There's the real condescension that can come from some in the medical field that a mother is "hysterical" and brush her off. I thought Jennifer Garner did a good job portraying those frustrated emotions of not being listened to.
Then there's the shocked horror when your fears are finally confirmed. When she walked out on that first confirmation of diagnosis after the surgery, Jennifer Garner looked like every gut-punched mother who's ever heard something like that--whether they were expecting it to come or not.
I also thought Anna was beautifully portrayed as well. You've never seen strength until you've seen critically ill children and how they handle it. Sure they have their moments as anyone would do, but they continue to have joy; they continue to play; they sing; they dance; and, amazingly, they end up as a source of comfort and strength to their parents.
Now going to that first shot of breakfast with checking the pump on Anna's nutrition; pulling out that tubing from her nose; the whiteboard propped up with all those medications and schedules. Learning how to do all of that while you're exhausted and traumatized is not easy. I had to learn to give my child infusions and other things that as someone who is extremely medically squeamish, I didn't think I'd ever do. But a Mom does what a Mom's gotta do. I guess I appreciated that scene more because I knew what went into the learning and how more commonplace the unthinkable can become.
I appreciated the scene in the movie of Anna in the hospital bed after so much time in pain and lashing out at her mother--and her mother lashing back out at her. I've seen my child writhing in pain on a hospital bed begging me for morphine (couldn't, because it wasn't time yet) and then begging me to pray. It's heartwrenching and horrifying. I've been on the receiving end of those lash outs and I've returned fire. It's hard to imagine a time when you would get irritated with your critically ill child, but you're exhausted, living with constant terror of losing them, and then they're not cooperating on top of that. It happens.
I appreciated the scenes of the family separated and the Dad at home taking care of earning a living; taking care of their other daughters, and just keeping their lives running while Mom took care of their sick child across the country. I've seen that so many times. Families separated for months at a time because at least one parent has to continue working and keeping the other kids in school. You want to keep the good kids' lives as normal as possible, but that is next to impossible to do. Also, parents stepping outside their normal roles and doing things they would've never done without something like this happening--like the Dad drying one daughter's hair while giving clothes advice to the other.
I appreciated where Jennifer Garner lists all of the ways they've been blessed in their journey--by the help of friends; by the medical community (her hugs for all the Boston staff and showing the relationship she'd developed with them over time was well done); and by the kindness of strangers--that is so realistic because we experienced that, too. Once, we were on our way home from treatment several hours away and had to stop to eat. My child was wearing a mask, and an older lady asked if it was for his protection or the public. When I told her, she reached into her purse and gave my child money to buy a gift. Just countless acts of compassion we witnessed and received.
I've read a lot of negative reviews about this movie preaching to the converted, blah, blah, blah. If you're not a believer, just take away a sense of compassion for those hurting and try to be a blessing to them. You don't have to be a Christian to do that. You just have to be a decent human being.
In the current world where most people have no faith & believe in the goodness of life, this story is indeed inspiring & a must-watch for all family.
This show should not be condemned as religion-preaching as some put it. It indeed reminds us there's a miracle in this world whereby miracle is stemmed from the goodness of other strangers & God bestowed on us. We may not realize but you'll discover as we practiced gratitude & show kindness to others, a miracle can happen in this life when you least expected it.
Then there's the shocked horror when your fears are finally confirmed. When she walked out on that first confirmation of diagnosis after the surgery, Jennifer Garner looked like every gut-punched mother who's ever heard something like that--whether they were expecting it to come or not.
I also thought Anna was beautifully portrayed as well. You've never seen strength until you've seen critically ill children and how they handle it. Sure they have their moments as anyone would do, but they continue to have joy; they continue to play; they sing; they dance; and, amazingly, they end up as a source of comfort and strength to their parents.
Now going to that first shot of breakfast with checking the pump on Anna's nutrition; pulling out that tubing from her nose; the whiteboard propped up with all those medications and schedules. Learning how to do all of that while you're exhausted and traumatized is not easy. I had to learn to give my child infusions and other things that as someone who is extremely medically squeamish, I didn't think I'd ever do. But a Mom does what a Mom's gotta do. I guess I appreciated that scene more because I knew what went into the learning and how more commonplace the unthinkable can become.
I appreciated the scene in the movie of Anna in the hospital bed after so much time in pain and lashing out at her mother--and her mother lashing back out at her. I've seen my child writhing in pain on a hospital bed begging me for morphine (couldn't, because it wasn't time yet) and then begging me to pray. It's heartwrenching and horrifying. I've been on the receiving end of those lash outs and I've returned fire. It's hard to imagine a time when you would get irritated with your critically ill child, but you're exhausted, living with constant terror of losing them, and then they're not cooperating on top of that. It happens.
I appreciated the scenes of the family separated and the Dad at home taking care of earning a living; taking care of their other daughters, and just keeping their lives running while Mom took care of their sick child across the country. I've seen that so many times. Families separated for months at a time because at least one parent has to continue working and keeping the other kids in school. You want to keep the good kids' lives as normal as possible, but that is next to impossible to do. Also, parents stepping outside their normal roles and doing things they would've never done without something like this happening--like the Dad drying one daughter's hair while giving clothes advice to the other.
I appreciated where Jennifer Garner lists all of the ways they've been blessed in their journey--by the help of friends; by the medical community (her hugs for all the Boston staff and showing the relationship she'd developed with them over time was well done); and by the kindness of strangers--that is so realistic because we experienced that, too. Once, we were on our way home from treatment several hours away and had to stop to eat. My child was wearing a mask, and an older lady asked if it was for his protection or the public. When I told her, she reached into her purse and gave my child money to buy a gift. Just countless acts of compassion we witnessed and received.
I've read a lot of negative reviews about this movie preaching to the converted, blah, blah, blah. If you're not a believer, just take away a sense of compassion for those hurting and try to be a blessing to them. You don't have to be a Christian to do that. You just have to be a decent human being.
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