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  • 2010
  • PG
  • Cinedigm Entertainment Group
  • 1 h 50 m
  • 2010
  • PG
  • Cinedigm Entertainment Group
  • 1 h 50 m

Summary Tyler Doherty is an extraordinary eight-year-old boy. Surrounded by a loving family and community, and armed with the courage of his faith, he faces his daily battle against cancer with bravery and grace. To Tyler, God is a friend, a teacher and the ultimate pen pal—Tyler's prayers take the form of letters, which he composes and mails on...

Directed By: David Nixon, Patrick Doughtie

Written By: Art D'Alessandro, Sandra Thrift, Cullen Douglas, Patrick Doughtie

  • 2010
  • PG
  • Cinedigm Entertainment Group
  • 1 h 50 m
  • 2010
  • PG
  • Cinedigm Entertainment Group
  • 1 h 50 m

Letters to God

Metascore Generally Unfavorable Based on 7 Critic Reviews
31
User Score Mixed or Average Based on 9 User Ratings
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Summary Tyler Doherty is an extraordinary eight-year-old boy. Surrounded by a loving family and community, and armed with the courage of his faith, he faces his daily battle against cancer with bravery and grace. To Tyler, God is a friend, a teacher and the ultimate pen pal—Tyler's prayers take the form of letters, which he composes and mails on...

Directed By: David Nixon, Patrick Doughtie

Written By: Art D'Alessandro, Sandra Thrift, Cullen Douglas, Patrick Doughtie

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Metascore
Generally Unfavorable Based on 7 Critic Reviews
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Generally Unfavorable Based on 7 Critic Reviews
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43% Negative
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58
A bland, pious yet touching faith-based tearjerker.
By Owen Gleiberman FULL REVIEW
50
With little in the way of story or spectacle to offer nonbelievers, the film itself just preaches to the choir.
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10
TCJT11-10-1996
Nov 8, 2013
If anyone give negative reviews for this film will not be saved under the power of sin! Those who give the film positive, will be saved. And those who give mixed or average, will choose to be saved or not!
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Gamingking007
Oct 18, 2010
Incredible movie it completely Changed my life!!!People who are not soft or don't have a close personal relationship with God will not enjoy this but if they do it will change their lives forever!!!:-)
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50
Mr. Johnson and Ms. Lively are both pretty good, and with a more nuanced approach could have made this a powerful film.
By Neil Genzlinger FULL REVIEW
40
While only the converted will likely see the redemption behind the manipulation, picture delivers a strong enough dose of spiritual saccharine to yield solid if not heavenly returns from its trusty target audience.
By Justin Chang FULL REVIEW
38
Good looking (it was filmed in Winter Garden) but slow and bland, this faith-based tear-jerker is a depressingly unemotional affair, with writing and some of the acting so flat that even its emotionally loaded situations can’t inspire waterworks.
By Roger Moore FULL REVIEW
30
Letters to God is far too simplistic and pandering to find success outside of the targeted church-going family moviegoers it’s hoping to reach.
By Pete Hammond FULL REVIEW
0
I’ve seen sick kids exploited for all sorts of reasons – usually as easy ploys to manipulate emotions but sometimes to sell things or encourage philanthropic outpourings – but Letters to God takes the cake (make that the holy wafer).
By Marjorie Baumgarten FULL REVIEW
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myemailnamelola
May 28, 2021
Boy writes letter to God, cute movie. Like the cast and the story line. Nice
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mandm1951
Nov 10, 2010
Oy Vey; we should have known better. My girlfriend (who is spiritual and somewhat religious) and I (an agnostic) rented this film because it was on sale but couldn't get through the whole thing. There is a group of (probably mostly church-going) people who will like -or love- this movie, but we found it preachy, pious, proselytizing, and all too predictable.
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Production Company Possibility Pictures, Mercy Creek Entertainment
Release Date Apr 9, 2010
Duration 1 h 50 m
Rating PG
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Tagline Hope is contagious......
Website https://mt2.org/uyeler/letters-to-god.16058/
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