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Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

One of my all time favorites.

This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

Ok... Let's be honest. It cannot be the best movie but is quite enjoyable. The movie has the potential to develop a great plot for future movies

This movie was disappointing in the sense that it was more about the guy's life experiences (and struggles) while writing his book than actually anything about the book itself. Seems like a PR stunt to me. I was expecting something that would at least go into the content of the book, maybe go into what he was feeling and experiencing. But then again it seems like he was more of just a 'medium' for this spiritual writings rather than actually having experienced anything spiritual worth showing/portraying. The movie makes what he ended up producing out of all of it somewhat of a side note, not particularly significant to the storyline. The Celestine Prophecy movie seemed more interesting than this, and that thing was really shallow/cliché in itself.

I haven't read the book, and this was released very limitedly, and for good reason too. I really like the lead actor Henry Czerny, but even he couldn't save this terrible flick. Now I like flashbacks as much as anyone, but I don't think I have ever seen so many in a film, that were totally pointless or annoying! First off the script, is just a mess. It is all over the place and boring! I know it is hard to make books into a half-way decent screenplay, but man this seemed like a first draft! What surprises me the most is that if the scenes we see in the movie are the best out of the book, then the book must be really bad. I have a hard time believing that is true, but this has to go down as one of the worst book adaptations to film I have ever seen. I only give this a two, because Czerny tried his best to make the film decent, but Tom Hanks couldn't have saved this!

This is an abridged version of a review being published at www.seedsofunfolding.org What if you sneezed, and God blessed you … in your own voice? This is the relationship with the Divine posited by Conversations with God (hereafter "CWG"), a new movie directed and produced by Stephen Simon and based on Neale Donald Walsch's well-loved series of books of the same name. Rather than focusing on kernels of divine wisdom that fans of the books might have expected, the film takes a biographical route. We follow Walsch's involuntary displacement from normal life, his descent into despair and the dark night of the soul and then his ultimate resurrection after he finds the inner voice he identifies as God.Henry Czerny stars as Walsch, and there are few moments in the film in which he is not center stage. He is at his best when, recognizing just how far he has fallen, he desperately gulps a half-eaten hamburger he has rescued from a garbage dumpster. He just as easily slips into the persona of a slicker version of Walsch on the New Age talk circuit.CWG takes a non-apologetic approach to the possibility that we each can find and depend upon a loving, guiding and nurturing inner voice. Just in case any member of the audience thinks that the movie is designed merely as a love-note to Neale Donald Walsch, in a brief coda following the closing credits the filmmakers ram home the point that we each can have these divine conversations on our own.Some critics may quarrel that it is either arrogance or madness to claim that a person's inner voice is God. Yet even the staunchest atheist would have to admit some truth to the principle that problems cannot be resolved from the same state of consciousness in which they were created. This in turn implies that there exists a possibility, accessible to each of us, to find ever-expanding perspectives and states of consciousness from which we can express wisdom far beyond the limits of our ordinary lives. When someone is capable of reaching such a place, it hardly matters whether you call it "God," "Divine Mother," "myself" or "George Washington." Some of the elements of the philosophy of Walsch's God may be difficult to swallow, even for card-carrying members of the New Age. For instance, the thought is expressed that when choosing how to make a living, the highest good is to do what you love. Contrast this with the fundamental message of love-what-you-do from Peaceful Warrior, another spiritually oriented film this year based on a semi-autobiographical bestseller.There is certainly something to be said for CWG's approach of don't-do-it-if-it-doesn't-feel-good. However, one can imagine many who would rely on this value as justification for avoiding the commitment to confront and work through a difficulty and instead attempting to seek happiness by shifting from job to job and location to location and flitting from mate to mate.Interestingly, the movie makes recurring reference to Walsch's own difficulties with love and commitment to the people for whom he cares. He acknowledges these problems and admits to his past and continuing mistakes. One wonders whether these recurring patterns in his life might have been influenced by responses he received from his inner voice that he wanted to hear, rather than what he needed to hear. This issue of wants versus needs means that anybody who seeks to embark on a path of developing such an inner dialogue must also develop the power to discern between which responses serve well and which responses are merely self-serving.Another philosophical premise that the film presents with difficulty is a disquieting approach to the economics of spiritual life. With Neale Donald Walsch as the center of attention in this autobiographical film, we are witness not only to his wanderings through a life of poverty but also to his emergence into a world of economic plenty and riches which are awarded to him in direct response to his ability to express himself to an audience interested in spirituality. The implicit message is that spiritual pursuits bring, or can be converted into, material rewards.While on the speaking circuit, Walsch comments to a friendly group, "Imagine a world where money was given to people who give us the biggest gifts." The problem is that most of us are taught, and believe, that a gift is given freely, with no strings, and not with a view towards measuring the return on investment. Walsch's statement conflicts with this basic understanding of what it means to give a gift. How can these two things—that we let go of gifts without control versus getting money for our gifts—be reconciled? Contrast CWG's concept of being paid for gifts with the sense of offering presented in Peaceful Warrior. In that movie, protagonist Dan Millman questions the apparent lack of success of Socrates, the gasoline station attendant who becomes his mentor. "You know so much, how come you're working at a gas station?" Millman asks. Without an ounce of defensiveness, Socrates responds, "This is a service station. We offer service. There's no higher purpose." In spite of doubts about some of the spiritual messages conveyed by CWG, viewers looking for inspiration will certainly be rewarded by a sprinkling of teachings in the film. For instance, God tells Walsch as he walks out of his bedroom, "To live your life without expectation, without the need for specific results, that is freedom." Perhaps this thought is the antidote for those who would seek to engage in spiritual pursuits for the hope of some reward.Few can doubt the sincerity with which Walsch and director/producer Stephen Simon (producer of Somewhere in Time and What Dreams May Come and co-founder of the Spiritual Cinema Circle DVD subscription service) bring to their project. Yet as a film-going experience independent of its message, CWG is not entirely satisfactory.

Have you read & enjoyed any of the books on this list:• Conversations With God (NYT bestseller list for 3 years…sold 7 million copies in 34 languages) Neale Donald Walsh • The Power of Now, Eckhart Tolle • As You Think, James Allen • The Architecture of All Abundance, Lenedra J. Carroll • Anything by Deepak Chopra • Anything by Dr. Wayne Dyer • The Alchemist's Handbook, John Randolph Price • Anything by Don Miguel Ruiz • What The Bleep Do We Know? • Ask & It Is Given, Ester & Jerry HicksIf you are reading this on IMDb, you are likely in the entertainment industry, or love movies. This film should absolutely be on your list of movies to see. I would describe it as inspiring, visionary and compassionate. Filmed in beautiful Ashland, Oregon. Directed by Stephen Simon (Somewhere in Time & What Dreams May Come with Robin Williams). Incredible writing. Beautiful filming. Henry Czerny gives a "riveting" performance. My daughter & I drove from the Bay area (SF was sold out) to attend the sneak preview in LA at The Agape Center (amazing place). I also sent my Grand Mama (age 93!) the 4th book in the series "At Home With God". My brother took her to the premier in Portland, and Neale signed her book! After seeing the movie I decided to start reading the original 3 book series, which is quite deep and relative to what's happening in the world TODAY, especially Book 2. How did Neale know the path we were headed down of "the haves and the have nots"? The point is not whether he actually had a "conversation with God". You'll see. If you LOVE GREAT movies, watch them, act in them, cast, produce or direct them, you should also check out www.spiritualcinemacircle.com. I think you can get a free intro DVD (with 4 films). The movies are NOT religious, but they ARE amazing. This is actually how we discovered Conversations with God. Check out www.cwgthemovie.com and go see the movie for your SELF.