A Little Bit of Heaven
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Metascore
14 out of 100

Overwhelming dislike - based on 20 Critics What's this?

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3.4 out of 10

Generally unfavorable reviews- based on 16 Ratings

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  • Starring: Gael García Bernal, Kate Hudson, Kathy Bates, Peter Dinklage
  • Summary: Marley Corbett is young, beautiful, and wildly funny, but she’s afraid of opening herself up to true love and commitment. Though she uses her humor to prevent matters from getting serious, a life-changing visit to her doctor sends both of them on an eye-opening adventure of mutual discoveryry, leading to revelations neither thought possible. (Millennium Entertainment)
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Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 0 out of 20
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 20
  3. Negative: 16 out of 20
  1. Total Film
    Reviewed by: Emma Dibdin
    Apr 28, 2012
    60
    While the marriage of fluffy comedy and terminal illness was always going to be an uncomfortable one, this is an understated, genuinely poignant weepie bolstered by a top-drawer cast.
  2. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Sheri Linden
    May 3, 2012
    30
    The movie perks up during Dinklage's scene as an escort, and screeches to a painful halt for a few conversations with God, who's played by a cloud-roosting Whoopi Goldberg. In a sophomore letdown from "The Woodsman," director Nicole Kassell gives the film no energy or rhythm, while the script pushes all the pre-set buttons.
  3. Slant Magazine
    Reviewed by: Andrew Schenker
    May 3, 2012
    25
    Unsurprisingly for a film detailing terminal disease, this is a largely solemn affair, often verging on morbidity in its elongated deathwatch.
  4. San Francisco Chronicle
    Reviewed by: Mick LaSalle
    May 3, 2012
    25
    In the long history of bad movies about bad illnesses, A Little Bit of Heaven just might be the worst.

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  1. Positive: 2 out of 5
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  3. Negative: 3 out of 5
  1. Amy_46809
    9
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. It was an excellent movie! Was a real tear jerker for me yet funny! I recommend this movie and will watch it again! I can relate with being angry with someone you love dying and there is nothing you can do to stop it! And it's hard to be happy in your life knowing someone you love so much it being taken away!!! I give this movie a 10!!!!… Expand
  2. lancekoz
    3
    Yes, this is a bad movie, though out of all the stinkers out there, I am not sure why this should merit the lowest score of anything currently in release. It fails in many ways, but is not so obviously bad at any one point that it made me finally give it up. It's just that when there's such famous actors involved on such a weighty subject, you really expect more. There is no chemistry in the leads, there is no consistency in the actions, it isn't funny (when it tries), it never develops momentum. It also seems odd to have a terminal patient feeling energetic enough to energetically do whatever they want with smiles and laughter so close to death. That aspect finally rings so untrue, I began to wonder how much better it would be to have the script and actors facing some more serious symptoms. When you find yourself wishing for more bad things to happen to a character in a film, that's a bad sign.… Expand
  3. GagaForGhibli
    0
    Kathy Bates Saves The Movie From Getting A 1 From Critics...
    Thats All I Can Say..
  4. MegWhiteley
    0
    This things happen when you have a terrible idea, with a terrible director, and no great cast, A Little Bit of Heaven, is horrible, really, I like this type of movies, but this is awful. The performances of all the cast are stupid, the story boring and more, this movie is HORRIBLE!!… Expand

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