When Colton Burpo (played here by cherubic newcomer Connor Corum) was four years old, his appendix ruptured and he nearly died. On the operating table he experienced what he describes as Heaven. Not only did he go there, he met his great grandfather, as well an unnamed sister lost to miscarriage. According to Colton’s father, minister Todd Burpo (Greg Kinnear), who eventually wrote a book about the boy’s experience, Colton couldn’t have possibly known about these things. Whether or not any of this actually happened is something only the Burpo family knows. For the purposes of this review let’s say it’s all true.
Let’s also say that Heaven Is For Real Ministries, as the Burpo’s ongoing business concern is known, one involving the book’s translation into over 30 languages, a traveling show called Heaven Is For Real: LIVE, Sunday School curriculum materials, and merchandise emblazoned with the face of Jesus (painted by Akiane Kramarik, a young Lithuanian girl who experienced a similar near-death visit to Heaven and who now creates portraits of a blue-eyed Son of God in the style of
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