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Conversations With God (2006)

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7

Average Rating: 3.4/10
Reviews Counted: 45
Fresh: 3 | Rotten: 42

At some point in the conversation, God must have asked for a subtler, deeper film.

5

Average Rating: 3.2/10
Critic Reviews: 21
Fresh: 1 | Rotten: 20

At some point in the conversation, God must have asked for a subtler, deeper film.

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An unemployed homeless man who once turned to God for the answers to life's problems decides to share the information he received with the rest of the world by penning a series of best-selling books, and now his remarkable story comes to the screen in a biographical drama from producer/director Stephen Simon. There was a time when Donald Walsch (Henry Czerny) had no place to go and no one to turn to, but that all changed when he directed the hardest questions he had ever asked at the entity many

Feb 27, 2007

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A coda after the closing credits, encouraging divine dialogues in general, does little to dispel the hagiographic aftertaste.

April 21, 2007
New York Times
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A terminally muddled movie, uncertain as to whether it's promoting Neale, God, Mammon, Putnam Books or the capitalist exploitation of spiritual need.

November 10, 2006 Full Review Source: Toronto Star
Toronto Star
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Although Stephen Simon's film has the mawkish trappings of an inspirational tale, its unseemly emphasis on monetary matters makes Walsch seem less interested in the spiritual possibilities of his celestial networking skills than their financial benefits.

November 10, 2006 Full Review Source: Globe and Mail
Globe and Mail
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This film adaptation of Neale Donald Walsch's best-selling book series plays more like an infomercial than a thoughtful exploration of religious issues.

November 2, 2006
Hollywood Reporter
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What He does want, according to Walsch, is for us to have jobs we really like, and to make money. Lots of money.

November 1, 2006 Full Review Source: Newark Star-Ledger
Newark Star-Ledger
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The story of Walsch's travails never strains credulity, though helmer Simon's predilection for spiritual vistas with light breaking through clouds, arrested close-ups and endless long dissolves often skirts kitsch.

October 30, 2006 Full Review Source: Variety
Variety
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The film is professionally mounted, smoothly constructed and carried with ease by Czerny's assured performance.

August 7, 2008 Full Review Source: Sacramento News & Review
Sacramento News & Review

Resembles a vanity project that looks as though every frame was submitted by producer-director Simon to Mr. Walsch for his approval.

January 19, 2007 Full Review Source: Compuserve
Compuserve

The facial hair that actor Henry Czerny is forced to wear in Conversations With God is ludicrous, even laughable -- as is much of this film.

December 8, 2006 Full Review Source: Deseret News, Salt Lake City
Deseret News, Salt Lake City

The cinematography has all the flair and depth of your average episode of "Yes, Dear"; the score is a giggle-inducing juggernaut of obviousness; Eric DelaBarre's script contains virtually no believable dialogue; and Stephen Simons' direction carries the s

December 7, 2006 Full Review Source: Bullz-Eye.com
Bullz-Eye.com

...boils down to the assertion that God is that voice in your head, a fairly innocent concept until God starts telling you to do something wrong.

November 16, 2006 Full Review Source: Film Journal International
Film Journal International

An amateurishly assembled movie-of-the- week-calibre feature with little dramatic energy for the depiction of a life-changing epiphany.

November 10, 2006 Full Review Source: Jam! Movies
Jam! Movies

B movie w/ good heart. Not everyone will buy into the spirituality dogma, I'm not sure I do. But, there is a definite need for all of us to take a deeper look into our souls.

November 7, 2006 Full Review Source: Hollywood Report Card
Hollywood Report Card

A conversation with God should be inspirational and moving, but this conversation loses some of the magnificence and glory when it's channeled through this very ordinary movie.

November 4, 2006 Full Review Source: TheMovieChicks.com

Simon has made a garish, lumpy, melodramatic and altogether unconvincing film about a man hitting bottom and then hearing a voice that helps him regain a place in the world (and a pretty rich place, at that).

November 3, 2006 Full Review Source: Oregonian
Oregonian

Bomides of the most banal sort...If you don't already belong to the choir, the preaching isn't likely to make much of an impression.

October 30, 2006 Full Review Source: One Guy's Opinion
One Guy's Opinion

Corny and harmless.

October 30, 2006 Full Review Source: Austin Chronicle
Austin Chronicle

What Walsch's message ultimately amounts to is for theologians and consumers to decide, but this uninspired presentation certainly drains it of some mystery and risks turning his writings into the ultimate self-help guide.

October 29, 2006 Full Review Source: Boxoffice Magazine
Boxoffice Magazine

What is unclear (to me, at least) is the process by which Walsch answered 'yes' to God's question and suddenly became a writer, doing what appears to be automatic writing of his first book.

October 28, 2006 Full Review Source: San Diego Metropolitan
San Diego Metropolitan

The film has nuggets here and there, which hint of something more, but all we get are situation and opaque, one-dimensional characters.

October 28, 2006
Greenwich Village Gazette

Audience Reviews for Conversations With God

This American tale of burgeoning spiritual discovery is meant to be wonderful ... but instead is awkward, stilted and poorly executed (particularly when lingering on the wonderful that's not), thus insuring that I will treat the literature, should I ever run across it, with the same disrespect that this film treated me.
November 26, 2012
UniversalDreamer

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A movie emotive that make you think and that will inspire you to change your life and be a better person, it will make you drop a couple of tears. A great adaptation from the book that its based on true facts.
March 2, 2007
barrys

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