A goofy, goodwill gesture toward the U.S. Postal Service, it’s never funny and moves slower than an unaddressed letter without postage.
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01/22/02
Dear God (1996)
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Reviews Counted:32
Fresh:4
Rotten:28
Average Rating:3.7/10
Runtime: 1 hr 52 mins
Genre: Comedies
Synopsis: In lieu of prison, fast-talking con artist Tom Turner (Greg Kinnear) is sentenced to employment in the dead letter department of the post office. Turner thinks he has found a perfect solution for... [More]
Starring: Greg Kinnear, Laurie Metcalf, Tim Conway, Maria Pitillo
Director: Garry Marshall
Reviews for Dear God
As trite as the framework is, Dear God might have been a charming holiday film, if only its miracles weren't so trite.
02/14/01
Top CriticGod, this thing is a total piece of junk. Even I'm embarrassed for You, and I'm an atheist.
01/01/00
It is a demonstration that Garry Marshall should retire from directing.
01/01/00
A sickeningly bad pastiche of much better pictures.
01/01/00
This lightweight comedy is so deathly earnest it forgot the humor.
01/01/00
[An] embarrassingly heavy-handed descent into the nightmarish maelstrom of feel-good cinema that comes on stronger than a speed-crazed pitbull with its tail on fire.
01/01/00
Awkward cuts rob the film of cohesion, and even the charming Kinnear seems to disappear at times amid the chaos -- a real test of viewers' faith.
01/01/00
It is a limp, lifeless story starring Greg Kinnear as a con man who becomes a do-gooder, and one of its many problems is that he was a lot more entertaining as a con man.
01/01/00
Top CriticA miserable excuse for a "feel-good" comedy.
01/01/00
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