Movie Info

Based on the bestseller by Mitch Albom (Tuesdays With Morrie), The Five People You Meet in Heaven takes up where It’s A Wonderful Lif...(read more...) e left off. In the Capra classic, George Bailey gets a vision of life without him. In this Hallmark Hall of Fame production, Eddie (Jon Voight), an amusement park maintenance man and war veteran, ends up in Heaven after an accident takes his life. There he meets five people from his past: the Blue Man (Jeff Richards), the Captain (Michael Imperioli), Marguerite (Dagmara Dominczyk), Ruby (Ellen Burstyn), and Tala (Nicaela and Shelbie Weigel). Each shows him how he impacted their life or they his--and not always for the better. (In these flashbacks, Callahan Brebner and Steven Grayhm play the young Eddie.) The point may seem simplistic--everyone is connected--but The Five People You Meet in Heaven finds a unique and engaging way to make it. --Kathleen C. Fennessy

Director: Lloyd Kramer

MPAA: Unrated

Running Time: 133 min.

Release Date: Dec 31, 2004

Cast: Anthony De Marco, Ava Hughes, Dagmara Dominczyk, Elias Toufexis, Ellen Burstyn, Jeff Daniels, Jon Voight, Megan McKinnon, Michael Imperioli, Rebecca Jenkins, Steven Grayhm