A Little Bit Of Heaven (2012)
Average Rating: 2.8/10
Reviews Counted: 54
Fresh: 2 | Rotten: 52
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Average Rating: 1.9/10
Critic Reviews: 18
Fresh: 0 | Rotten: 18
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A Little Bit of Heaven is a love story set in New Orleans about an irreverent young woman who unexpectedly falls in love with her doctor. Marley Corbett (Kate Hudson) is young, beautiful, and wildly funny, but she's afraid of opening herself up to true love and commitment. Though she uses her humor to prevent matters from getting serious, a life-changing visit to her doctor (Gael Garcia Bernal) sends both of them on an eye-opening adventure of mutual discovery, leading to revelations neither
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Kate Hudson
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Lucy Punch
Sarah Walker -
Kathy Bates
Beverly Corbett -
Peter Dinklage
Vinnie -
Gael García Bernal
Julian Goldstein
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Sap without the weight of reality, awkwardly combined with a romance without much chemistry.
Top CriticA little bit of hell.
Kate Hudson dies prettily in this tone-deaf dramedy about a woman finding love while suffering from colon cancer.
When a movie opens with a character telling you that love isn't important, that movie is definitely going to smack down that nonbeliever, because movies always believe love is important.
Who knew dying could be such a laugh riot? Certainly not any of us who have actually watched a loved one in the awful final stages of cancer.
In the long history of bad movies about bad illnesses, "A Little Bit of Heaven" just might be the worst.
While director Nicole Kassall tried to create an independent female lead who doesn't give into stereotypes with Marley, the overall movie ultimately lacked originality, a memorable story and characters with any true purpose.
Director Nicole Kassell is completely out of her element here.
For those who have a lot of time to waste
Bizarre combo of terminal cancer weepy and sexy romcom.
An overdose of sentimentality that ends up being painful to watch.
It's hard to develop much empathy for the characters in the final reel when everything leading to that point rings so emotionally false.
Although New Orleans sparkles as the film's setting, the story boasts too many moving and mismatched parts to resonate in any sort of meaningful way.
In A Little Bit of Heaven, Hudson pushes the "Just Die Already" meter straight into the red.
This movie turns into a total bummerfest that isn't sad enough to make me cry or funny enough to make me giggle.
Audience Reviews for A Little Bit Of Heaven
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Good movie! This film was ballsy in a number of ways, chief of which is in its treatment of a story about death without shirking from the nasty details of anticipation, and the inevitable execution. Many Hollywood films tend to cop out at the very last minute, but this one tackled it with a lot of dignity, and proved that one doesn't have to always compromise to do what gets reflected in real life. That, and Kate Hudson showing a lot of nerve in many scenes almost sans makeup, looking quite ghastly and pale as the story called for it. Written by Gren Wells, it's more about how one should approach life when given a death sentence, with the romance angle taking a back seat despite marketeers' efforts to skew this into a romantic comedy. And in some ways this film made me think a little bit more about mortality, if one were to be struck by a serious illness which was detected late and the treatment really being a bitch, would you want to go ahead with trying to get cured, or to live whatever is left to the fullest? Think about it!
Marley Corbett (Kate Hudson) is young, beautiful, and wildly funny, but she's afraid of opening herself up to true love and commitment. Though she uses her humor to prevent matters from getting serious, a life-changing visit to her doctor (Gael Garcia Bernal) sends both of them on an eye-opening adventure of mutual discovery, leading to revelations neither thought possible.
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- Marley Corbett: I'm retarded. I picked love instead of my life, AM I JUST PATHETIC!
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- Marley Corbett: Is is really true what they say about black guys - you know the 12 inches?
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- Marley Corbett: I have cancer. Anyway, who wants dessert?
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- Marley Corbett: You look familiar. Have we had sex?
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Foreign Titles
- Kein Mittel gegen Liebe (DE)
- Little Bit of Heaven (AU)
