Oh, God! PG
Anybody who could turn Lot's wife into a pillar of salt, incinerate Sodom and Gomorrah and make it rain for forty days and forty nights has got to be a fun guy.
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DVD Details
- Rated: PG
- Run Time: 1 hours, 38 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: July 9, 2002
- Originally Released: 1977
- Label: Warner Home Video
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | George Burns, John Denver, Teri Garr, Donald Pleasence & Ralph Bellamy | |
Performer: | Dinah Shore, Paul Sorvino & Barry Sullivan | |
Directed by | Carl Reiner | |
Edited by | Bud Molin | |
Screenwriting by | Larry Gelbart | |
Composition by | Jack Elliott | |
Art Direction by | Jack Senter | |
Produced by | Jerry Weintraub | |
Director of Photography: | Victor J. Kemper |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 80/100 --
I was struck by just how good Denver was. It's surprising he didn't get more roles based on his debut performance.
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Apollo Guide
George Burns seems to be warming up for a good Second City sketch on God's return to earth as a rumpled vaudevillian, but it soon becomes clear that director Carl Reiner isn't kidding -- he really thinks this movie is going to save the world.
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Chicago Reader
This wonderful comedy salutes human responsibility for making the world a better place and takes justifiable pot-shots at holier-than-thou hotshots.
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Spirituality and Practice
Rating: 2/5 --
An uneasy amalgam or inconsistent attitudes, without enough humor or zaniness to divert attention from its questionable premise.
New York Times
Rating: 8/10 --
Burns is everything we could hope for in a benevolent God--a kindly, reassuring voice; a sympathetic smile; a modest, unassuming manner; everyone's favorite uncle.
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Movie Metropolis
The result plays like an over-extended version of the Reiner/Mel Brooks 2000-Year-Old Man sketches.
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Time Out
Rating: 3.5/4 --
Carl Reiner's Oh, God! is a treasure of a movie: A sly, civilized, quietly funny speculation on what might happen if God endeavored to present himself in the flesh yet once again to forgetful Man.
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Chicago Sun-Times
Product Description:
Jerry Landers (a terrifically surprising John Denver) is an average guy in every sense of the word. He lives a completely normal, dull life, working at the local supermarket (where everybody, of course, knows him and likes him) and never doing anything out of the ordinary. That's why no one is more surprised than he is when God chooses to make himself known to the world through Jerry by sending him a typewritten, misspelled note granting him an audience with the Supreme Being. Jerry doesn't believe his eyes when God turns out to be an old, scrawny man (who looks a lot like George Burns). First, God must convince Jerry that he really is whom he claims to be; as Jerry grow closer and closer to him, he starts growing apart from his family--his wife, played by Teri Garr, thinks he has lost all his marbles. As Jerry goes public with God's message, his faith is tested every step of the way, resulting in a very funny and meaningful trial scene. This wry, thoughtful comedy from Carl Reiner, based on the novel by Avery Corman, carries a serious message about religion, faith, and the way people care for the world they've been given. George Burns is delightful as the forthright, wisecracking God; his scenes with Denver are cinematic treasures.
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- Sales Rank: 18,769
- UPC: 085391604723
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