OH, GOD!, directed by Carl Reiner screenplay by Larry Gelbart based on the novel by Avery Corman director of photography, Victor Kemper edited by Bud Molin music by Jack Elliott produced by Jerry Weintraub distributed by Warner Bros.
These latter scenes are not likely to be mistaken for erotica. Denver appears barechested several times. Burns made a few harmless jokes about Adam and Eve, and because Mr. Denver appears on the "Dinah Shore Show" and tries with the help of a police artist, to come up with God's portrait."Oh, God!" is rated PG "Parental Guidance Suggested") because Mr. been chosen to render the benediction at this year's Super Bowl."The film's only other dashes of genuine levity come when Mr. He plays an evangelist in white shoes who boasts of having "personally. The religious leaders of the world are played by Barry Sullivan, Donald Pleasence, Jeff Corey and Paul Sorvino, but of these only Mr. Denver's frazzled wife, who lives with him in a cluttered suburban house where all the domestic debris looks brand new.
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Reiner has marshaled an impressive supporting cast, including Ralph Bellamy as a trial lawyer and Teri Garr as Mr. Denver, though he is unable to convey any emotion more complex than enthusiasm, is obviously trying.Mr. Burns is amusing even when his material is substandard. Burns says there will be "a lot of yelling and screaming, and I don't need that any more than you do."As directed by Carl Reiner, "Oh, God!" is an uneasy amalgam or inconsistent attitudes, without enough humor or zaniness to divert attention from its questionable premise. God doesn't look forward to Doomsday, Mr. Burns also makes a lot of wisecracks, which aren't entirely compatible with the movie's underlying sanctimoniousness. "You have the strength that comes from knowing," he tells his protégé.Mr. Burns doesn't exactly supply the corresponding Big Answers, but he does provide a modicum of spiritual guidance. In this boxoffice comedy smash, God (played by the one and only George Burns) comes to Earth to spread the Good Word, but has a hard time convincing his chos. Denver, who is compared by the screenplay with Moses, Jesus, Einstein and Joan of Arc, asks some decidedly unfunny Big Questions: "If you're so involved with us, how can you permit all the suffering that goes on in the world?" Mr. Burns readily emerges as the funnierIn all fairness, neither actor has the kind of part that can be played strictly for laughs. The film doesnt ask its audience to believe in a supreme being it only wants to urge the audience to pretend for a moment that there is one.
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Denver, when he is asked why the Lord chose him as a messenger, says things like "God only knows-I mean. movie is a small comic gem pitting 80-year-old George Burns, playing his version of God, against a world that seems to have forgotten its own simplicity.
Burns, who makes a number of house calls, wears a fishing cap and tennis shoes and says things like "so help me, me" when he is sworn in at a concluding trial sequence. Denver) to spread the message that "what we have down here can work." Mr. The Lord, in the form of George Burns, chooses a Tarzana, Calif., super-market manager (Mr. "Oh, God!" is either a one-joke movie or a two, depending upon how you feel about John Denver's acting debut.
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