A Thought-Provoking, Interesting Date Movie
This is what I like to call a "big boy" movie. No car chases. No explosions. No witty repartee or snappy comebacks. It's a movie with a plot, and characters, and things to think about. Perhaps most importantly (and most surprisingly), it's a Hollywood movie that focuses on the value of faith, and believing in the proverbial "higher power" and why it is so difficult to do so in this cynical world of ours.
The acting is fine (although Luke Wilson is just a little too "Johnny One Note" for me, in that his emotional range was between 1 and 1.2 on a scale of 10), and the story line believable. It's a nice movie for two grown-ups to go see, enjoy, and talk about afterwards, and it leaves you to answer for yourself "what would you do?"
To borrow a cliche, this movie will make you laugh, and cry, and laugh again, and I found it satisfying, enjoyable, and worth the price of admission AND popcorn.