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Greg Kinnear's limited talents are stretched too thin in his role as a selfish con man who becomes a nice guy after being sentenced to work at the dead-letter department of an L.A. post office. Decidi...( read more  read more... )ng that it's nicer to help people than rip them off, Kinnear's character leads a band of mailroom wackos in responding to the entreaties of those who write to God for divine help via the mailbox. The film strains to be reminiscent of Frank Capra's populist comedies while also covering a lot of other, far less sophisticated comedy bases. Laurie Metcalf is mostly irritating as a neurotic postal worker who tries to keep the hero out of jail, when it's discovered he's removing dead letters from their basement burial ground. Hector Elizondo does his dignified thing, and Jack Klugman and Roscoe Lee Browne are somewhere in the mix. Tim Conway is the best element, a half-crazed mailman with the only shred of real humanity in this supposedly human tale. --Tom Keogh

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PG, 112 min.

Directed by: Garry Marshall

Release Date: November 1, 1996

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DVD Release Date: January 27, 2004

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Flixster Reviews (131)

  • franktowers
    February 16, 2009
    franktowers
    nice lil movie
  • LisaMJ
    May 28, 2008
    LisaMJ
    Good.
  • FutureMrsNeeson
    August 20, 2009
    FutureMrsNeeson
    Greg Kinnear is in it so I NEED 2 SEE IT!!!!!!!!!
  • Yinali
    June 12, 2009
    Yinali
    Refreshing, a good ol' movie to watch and enjoy at home.
  • benjamincwright
    October 1, 2008
    benjamincwright
    Yea, it's a feel good film. It is a lot of fun to watch and Tim Conway is priceless.
  • JGom
    July 17, 2008
    JGom
    It was a good movie. I watched it on video. Greg Kinnear was adorable!
  • bossdwg
    July 7, 2008
    bossdwg
    Sometimes we all need to help each other out. Just don't call yourself God. There is only one.
  • PapillonPuppy
    June 12, 2008
    PapillonPuppy
    I definitely wasn't expecting an Oscar winning performance out of a movie like "Dear God" but I still enjoyed it. It was cute.
  • tom123b
    June 10, 2008
    tom123b
    First off, this film was too long and the best characters only mildly entertaining. But it gets worse. Dear God is the type of film that wants you to think a positive inspirational message, while really, the only reason it was made is that Hollywood needed a non-R/PG-13 rated mov...( read more)ie so that easily-offended families will still attend theaters.

    Tom, a ex-con artist trying to rebuild his life in his new job as a postal worker, and his fellow employees all decide to start a grassroots group that looks at the problems people have written to God about (hence the title) and do what they can to fix them. The movie acts like all the problems in the world are simply a matter of unfortunate circumstances, and hence are easily fixable. Never do they run into someone with problems that require in sort of meaningful personal change. Even the man trying to commit suicide is easily talked out of it. What we're left with is a group of people with too much free time doing chores for and helping out people who have too little free time. If they had taken this idea for what is, maybe a movie could have been salvaged out of it, but instead it tries to stretch for far more than its worth. It's clear the writers/directors were far more concerned about not offending anyone than about communicating any sort of meaningful story or message to the audience.
  • SaintFrancisofAssisi
    June 5, 2008
    SaintFrancisofAssisi
    Not interested in seeing this.

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