Oh, God! (1977)
73 %
Reviews Counted: 26 Fresh: 19 Rotten:7 Average Rating: 6.2/10
Runtime: 1 hr 44 mins
Synopsis: Jerry Landers (a terrifically surprising John Denver) is an average guy in every sense of the word. He lives a completely normal, dull life, working at the local supermarket (where everybody, of course, knows him and likes him) and never doing anything out of the ordinary. That's why no one is... [More]
Genre: Comedies
Starring: George Burns, John Denver, Teri Garr, Paul Sorvino, Ralph Bellamy
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Reiner does one of his best directing jobs and never resorts to some of the silliness he's demonstrated in other films. Denver is very affable and could have had a good movie career given the right material.
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03/19/08
The result plays like an over-extended version of the Reiner/Mel Brooks 2000-Year-Old Man sketches.
01/26/06
An uneasy amalgam or inconsistent attitudes, without enough humor or zaniness to divert attention from its questionable premise.
05/09/05
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Carl Reiner's Oh, God! is a treasure of a movie: A sly, civilized, quietly funny speculation on what might happen if God endeavored to present himself in the flesh yet once again to forgetful Man.
10/23/04
Top Critic
This wonderful comedy salutes human responsibility for making the world a better place and takes justifiable pot-shots at holier-than-thou hotshots.
05/23/03
Oh, God! salutes human responsibility for making the world a better place and takes justifiable pot-shots at holier-than-thou hotshots.
05/23/03
Somewhere deep down, I think we all hope that God turns out to be like George Burns.
10/03/02
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