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A Tear Jerker From Heaven by Robert Bianco (USA Today)
Posted by Ed and Lois
Based on the book “The Five People You Meet In Heaven” by Mitch Albom. It’s on ABC TV Sunday night at 8:00.
Written by talk-show host and Tuesdays With Morrie author Mitch Albom, The Five People You Meet in Heaven is one of those gift-shop inspirational parables that usually are more popular with book buyers than book critics. Come the holidays, those tales tend to plop on the TV screen like a honey-coated Christmas goose.
Happily for us, Albom’s story is stronger at its core than most. And Albom, director Lloyd Kramer and producers Robert Halmi Sr. and Jr. have transferred it to film in its best imaginable version. Stripped to its essentials, beautifully acted and gorgeously produced, a Heaven that might have struck some as simplistic and preachy is now closer to simple and profound.
Heaven is a modern twist on The Christmas Carol, with an emotionally damaged hero being led to salvation by five people in heaven rather than three ghosts on Earth. In Albom’s vision, the five people you meet are not necessarily the most important people in your life or the ones you loved the most. They’re five people who can illuminate your life.
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