It was announced that Joe Roth would be producing the film with T. In May 2011, Sony Pictures acquired the film rights of the book Heaven Is for Real. Lane Styles as Cassie Burpo, Burpo's daughter and Colton's sister.Kelly Reilly as Sonja Burpo, Burpo's wife.Greg Kinnear as Todd Burpo, a small-town pastor in Nebraska.Photos of Colton and his family are shown in the present day. Todd tries to speak to Colton further about the experience but he is interrupted by his wife revealing that she is pregnant with their third child.

Her recall of Jesus was identical to that of Colton.

At church, he preaches about his son's experiences and reveals his support for him.įollowing the events at the church, Todd is doing research on the Internet and finds a story about a Lithuanian girl who had a similar experience. When Todd is called by a radio station for an impromptu on-air interview, he invites them to attend his sermon the following Sunday. Todd's wariness about discussing the situation erodes the confidence of the board members of his church, and he is contacted by several members of the media. He also speaks of incidents with people he never met or knew about: meeting a great-grandfather who had died long before he was born, an unborn sister he never knew about who had died in a miscarriage, and having met Jesus.Ĭolton speaks about his experiences in Heaven, and Todd is faced with the dilemma of determining the legitimacy of his son's experience. He describes to his incredulous family about having seen the surgeon operating on his ruptured appendix, his mother calling people in the waiting room to pray, and his father in another room yelling at God to not let him die. Colton says he experienced Heaven during an emergency surgery after having acute appendicitis. Plot įour-year-old Colton Burpo is the son of Todd Burpo, pastor of Crossroads Wesleyan Church in Imperial, Nebraska. The film has received mixed critical reviews, but nevertheless was a box office success, grossing $101 million against a $12 million budget, becoming the second-highest grossing Christian film of all time. The film stars Greg Kinnear, Kelly Reilly, Connor Corum, Margo Martindale, and Thomas Haden Church. Heaven Is for Real is a 2014 American Christian drama film written and directed by Randall Wallace and co-written by Christopher Parker, based on Pastor Todd Burpo and Lynn Vincent's 2010 book of the same name.

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