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To me, this movie is perfection.

Excellent but underrated film

As Good As It Gets

Actress is magnificent and exudes a hypnotic screen presence in this affecting drama.

Not a surprise. Same story of Mirtch Albom universe and same recipes. Sense of existence in honey cream. Small things with great importance. Relationship as result of many crumbs. And love as ingredient of base. But behind that, a beautiful movie. And the root is Jon Voight who create a special Eddie. The theme is generous; so the errors are cages at every step. But the art of Voight gives force of story and lights very delicate. So, the seeds of our passing are more than a metaphor. And the Heaven is more close of Albom idea. So, Jon Voight is really great in this movie. And his science to be the right character is source of a good show and axis of a fine definition of a writer art.

This is one of the best movies that exists! Jon Voight is an awesome actor and he played the role so very well. In this movie, Eddie (Voight) is a maintenance worker at a small amusement park on a pier. A nice man yet not happy with his life, he feels trapped and feels that he didn't accomplish what he had wanted when he was young. As he is working one day, he sacrifices his own life as he tries to save a young child from a potentially life-threatening situation. This begins his journey to Heaven. Along the way, he meets five people that show him he was right where he belonged and right where God wanted him all along. He learns some truths behind some of the saddest and some of the happiest times of his life. Beautifully written with wonderful acting, this movie will move you. Even if you are not religious, you will love every second of this movie.

Often times, we wonder if our lives count? Did we make a difference in the life of another person?We have a distorted image of ourselves through life. We do things which are, dull, boring, mundane. No value.We interact with people, but there seems no purpose to it. It's all rehearsed. We go through life, make all the motions, and eventually die.We don't see the effect we have on others, only the effect others have on us.The kind word. The smile. Shaking hands. Ordinary.Then some day, the tape of our life is rewound, and our life unfolds on the screen of time.Five people were touched. Transformed. Because one individual made a difference.That's hard for us Humans.Maybe the small things in life, DO MATTER.This film is very existential, yet is is also very down to earth.Jon Voight does a magnificent job.Rated 4.5 stars out of 5.Wayno

This movie fails on so many levels. First, it is not at all as advertised. The description claimed it was a story about a man (Eddie) dying and meeting in Heaven five people who show him how he affected their lives. There is an implication it is uplifting. This is not true. Instead it is a depressing feel-bad movie about a man who dies and meets in Heaven five people who preach at him and show him their own deaths, and in two notable cases, how Eddie caused those deaths. The guy goes through the movie feeling worse and worse about himself until in the last minute the movie does a complete turnaround and you get about 5 seconds of "feel-good" instead of the feel-bad, but it's contrived and absurd. For the most part, this movie is an obnoxious, preachy guilt trip. It is also horrifically overly sentimental and smug in its sentimentality. You can tell the idiot who wrote the book was pretty much demanding a fistful of awards for his pretentious drek.The stories are ridiculous and contrived. They make more sense as parodies of bad Lifetime movie plots and reading reviews of it I see that it was, indeed, made for TV. At least that means no one actually spent money on gas or theater tickets for it. I kind of hate the word bathos, but this is one case where it is the only word that makes any sense as a description. And there are a couple of scenes that were clearly designed as sucker punches.The editing is choppy, especially the sound. I don't think this was done for effect, as it doesn't make sense that way. The art direction is acceptable, as are the costumes and sets. However the director doesn't really make very good use of the carnival/amusement park setting.The acting is mostly horrible, but given the bad script that may have been somewhat inescapable. On the plus side, Jeff Daniels and Callum Keith Rennie both do a fairly creditable job in a very small role and a rather important role respectively. However, Daniels's character does join the ranks of the arrogant and preachy at times. Rennie's, on the other hand, is a jerk but at least he plays the part fairly cleanly. On the very bad side, Jon Voight's pathetic, miserable Eddie makes no sense whatsoever. There is a complete disconnect between the character and the events of his life. And the scene where he plays Eddie forgiving his father made me cringe with extreme embarrassment for him. It should have been sweet and touching. Instead it is laughable. Then on the extremely horrible side we have Ellen Burnstyn. I do not think I have ever been quite so disappointed in an actress. She's usually wonderful, but in this turkey she's completely foul. She comes off as smug, arrogant and patronizing. Her narration is like nails scratching a chalkboard.The acting is mostly awful, the script is something the writer should be horribly ashamed of, and the advertising for it is flat out false and misleading. I usually like uplifting movies, so the awfulness of this thing was that much more disappointing.In summary: Worst movie I've seen in years.