6/26/21 – Small-town businessman, pastor and volunteer firefighter Todd Burpo (Greg Kinnear) and his wife, Sonja (Kelly Reilly), are struggling to make ends meet during a tough year. After their young son, Colton (Connor Corum), undergoes emergency surgery, Todd and Sonja are overjoyed at the child’s miraculous recovery. However, the Burpos are unprepared for what happens next — Colton says that he went to heaven and back, and tells his parents things that he couldn’t possibly know.
Q-tips say: See it. What a nice change from some of the crap that they show now a days.
Mrs. Q says: The movie is based off the book Heaven Is For Real: A Little Boy’s Astounding Story of His Trip to Heaven and Back written by Todd Burpo and Lynn Vincent, published in 2010. The movie begins with seeing the life of the child and his family. This family’s son becomes sick and when in surgery, goes to heaven or has an out of body experience. People do not believe Colton’s story and people judge the family. This family has to deal with parenting their children in the “public eye.”