Dear God

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Dear God
Directed by	Garry Marshall
Produced by	Mario Iscovich
Written by	Warren Leight Ed Kaplan
Starring	Greg Kinnear Laurie Metcalf Maria Pitillo Tim Conway Hector Elizondo Jon Seda Roscoe Lee Browne
Music by	James Patrick Dunne Jeremy Lubbock
Cinematography	Charles Minsky
Editing by	Debra Neil-Fisher
Distributed by	Paramount Pictures
Release date(s)	1 November 1996
Running time	112 min
Country	USA
Language	English
IMDb profile

Dear God was a 1996 comedy film distributed by Paramount Pictures.

Contents 1 Plot 2 Cast 3 Reception 4 References 5 External links

[edit] Plot

Tom Turner (Greg Kinnear), a con artist, works at a post office and begins to answer the letters from people addressed to God.

[edit] Cast

Actor	Role
Greg Kinnear	Tom Turner
Laurie Metcalf	Rebecca Frazen
Maria Pitillo	Gloria McKinney
Tim Conway	Herman Dooly
Hector Elizondo	Vladek Vidov
Jon Seda	Handsome
Roscoe Lee Browne	Idris Abraham

[edit] Reception

Dear God received generally negative reviews from critics. Both Siskel & Ebert gave the film two thumbs down upon its release. ^[1] James Berardinelli gave the film one star and explained, "At least after seeing this movie, I understand where the title came from -- starting about thirty minutes into this interminable, unfunny feature, I began looking at my watch every few minutes and thinking, 'Dear God, is this ever going to end?' A sickeningly bad pastiche of much better pictures -- It's a Wonderful Life, Miracle on 34th Street, and (believe it or not) Spartacus all leap to mind -- Dear God is the worst excuse for a holiday film since Nora Ephron's hideous Mixed Nuts." ^[2] As of May 2008 Rotten Tomatoes had issued a 10% rating from its users. ^[3]

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Dear God at the Internet Movie Database

v • d • e Films directed by Garry Marshall Young Doctors in Love (1982) • The Flamingo Kid (1984) • Nothing in Common (1986) • Overboard (1987) • Beaches (1988) • The Lottery (1989) • Pretty Woman (1990) • Frankie and Johnny (1991) • Exit to Eden (1994) • Dear God (1996) • The Other Sister (1999) • Runaway Bride (1999) • The Princess Diaries (2001) • Raising Helen (2004) • The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement (2004) • Georgia Rule (2007)