90 Minutes in Heaven (film)

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90 Minutes in Heaven
90 Minutes in Heaven (film) poster.jpg
Theatrical release poster
Directed by Michael Polish
Screenplay byMichael Polish
Based on 90 Minutes in Heaven
by Don Piper and Cecil Murphey
Produced by
Starring
Cinematography M. David Mullen
Edited byCary Gries
Production
companies
Distributed by Samuel Goldwyn Films [1]
Release date
  • September 11, 2015 (2015-09-11)
Running time
121 minutes [2]
CountryUnited States
Budget$5 million [3]
Box office$4.8 million [4]

90 Minutes in Heaven is a 2015 Christian drama film directed by Michael Polish and starring Hayden Christensen, Kate Bosworth, Dwight Yoakam, Michael W. Smith, and Michael Harding. It is based on the bestselling novel by the same name. It is the first film by Giving Films, a sister company to retail chain Family Christian Stores, [5] and though the company announced plans to donate all profits from the film to charitable organizations, the poorly reviewed film showed a loss at the box office. [6]

Contents

Premise

Baptist minister Don Piper is involved in a horrific car crash, pronounced dead at the scene and covered by a tarp. [7] [8] Ninety minutes later, having been brought to a hospital, he returns to life and claims to have seen Heaven and visited with deceased relatives while there. [9] [10] [11]

Cast

Production

The project was shot in Atlanta, Georgia, [12] and the shooting finished in March 2015. [7] [13] [14] Since its publication, Don Piper's book was twice on the New York Times Best Seller list, was listed as a USA Today best-seller, [15] and has sold 7 million copies in 46 languages. [16]

The producers chose to stay as true to the book which inspired the film as possible: [17]

[ sic ]"I think a lot of people read books, especially true stories, and then the movie is not even close to the real story and they make up things. I told Don that I thought the story stood for itself and my commitment to him was that it would be true to the book, and be true period." – Rick Jackson [17]

Actress Kate Bosworth stated she "was amazed how Piper's story affects so many people" and that she felt blessed "to be a part of the movie's cast." [17] Filming began in January 2015, [9] [11] [18] and by March 8, 2015, filming had wrapped and the project went into post-production. [19]

Release

Home media

90 Minutes in Heaven was released on DVD and Blu-ray on December 1, 2015. [20]

Reception

90 Minutes in Heaven has received negative reviews from critics. As of December 2020, the film holds a 26% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes, based on 23 reviews with an average rating of 4.6/10. [21] Metacritic gives the film a score of 28 out of 100, based on reviews from 9 critics, indicating "generally unfavorable reviews". [22]

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