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Kailansorac Clever, believable, and super fun to watch. It totally has replay value.

FrogGlace In other words,this film is a surreal ride.

Adeel Hail Unshakable, witty and deeply felt, the film will be paying emotional dividends for a long, long time.

bkoganbing There's a great line from Inherit The Wind where in examining Fredric March on the stand Spencer Tracy deflates March who is on that prosecution team as a celebrity religious authority. If God speaks to Matthew Harrison Brady "suppose a Cates or a Darwin might have the audacity to think that God might speak to them". Oh God examines the proposition that God might speak to a lesser human being in this case Assistant Supermarket manager John Denver.You can't get more average and ordinary than Denver a decent soul raising a decent family in this crazy world with not any formal religious affiliation. Which is maybe the reason God who appears to Denver in many places and guises as George Burns. Burns with that disarming manner makes one droll Divine Deity.Larry Gelbart who wrote the script which brought an Oscar nomination to Oh God filled it with some sly and very profound observations on the human condition. Free will folks is the key, he gave us the world and humankind made it what it is today.The film is well cast. I truly enjoyed Paul Sorvino's pompous pompadoured reverend. Burns doesn't like him and he tells Denver to tell him so. Which brings us to a courtroom scene, the goal of every player. I'll bet this film isn't run at Liberty Baptist University ever.But it ought to be required viewing for all of us. We make the problems only we can clean them up.

utgard14 God comes to Earth in the form of George Burns and tells supermarket manager John Denver to spread His message. Charming low-key comedy with a very likable cast. Denver's appealing as the 'everyman' protagonist. Burns, of course, steals the show as the affable Almighty. The rest of the cast includes the lovely Teri Garr as Denver's wife, Paul Sorvino as a televangelist, vets Ralph Bellamy and Donald Pleasence, and many other recognizable faces. Great cast all around. I also enjoy the low-budget look of the film. It's a very 1970s movie (in a good way). It's not the funniest movie Carl Reiner ever made, nor is it ever as profound or satirical as the subject matter calls for, but it is hard to dislike.

Uriah43 "Jerry Landers" (John Denver) is a mild-mannered assistant manager at a local grocery store who one night gets a typed letter from "God" (George Burns) to meet him for an interview. Thinking it's all a big joke he throws the letter away and goes to sleep. A few hours later he wakes up and finds the letter under his pillow. Slightly puzzled he tears up the letter and once again discards it. As fate would have it though the letter again appears and so he decides to go to the place specified in order to straighten things out in his mind. But rather than solving anything he finds that his life is about to get even more complicated than ever. Now rather than risk spoiling the movie for those who haven't seen it I will just say that this was a delightful, little comedy which is clearly not meant to be taken too seriously. Certainly, having God appear as an old man with glasses and a baseball hat was definitely amusing. Likewise, I thought Teri Garr (as Jerry's wife "Bobbie") was also a good addition as well as she was absolutely gorgeous. In any case, although this wasn't a "roll-in-the-aisle" type of comedy it was good enough for the time spent and I rate it as slightly above average.

mrb1980 The mid-1970s were George Burns' heyday. After several decades out of the movie business, he starred in several films that were surprising successes. He did stand-up comedy in Las Vegas. He appeared on talk shows and told silly jokes about smoking cigars, outliving his doctors, and hanging out with women one-fourth his age. He was an octogenarian movie star, and "Oh, God!" was released around the peak of his latter-day fame.The film begins with God (in the form of George Burns) appearing in supermarket manager Jerry's (John Denver) bathroom. God tells Jerry to get The Word out, so Jerry tells his story to a reporter (George Furth). This of course attracts the attention of several wackos and many theologians (including Jeff Corey, Paul Sorvino, and Donald Pleasance), much to the dismay of Jerry's wife (Teri Garr). There's an amusing courtroom sequence, and Jerry and God say goodbye and part ways. The movie is lightly entertaining with a warm message and has lots of good scenes, but trust me, it has no real laughs. Burns is his usual self, and Denver is surprisingly good in an uncharacteristic acting role. Garr and especially Sorvino (playing an outrageous TV evangelist) stand out in the supporting cast. Two inferior sequels with Burns but without Denver were later released.A lot of the shine has worn off "Oh, God!" since 1977. Burns and Denver are no longer with us, and George Burns' 1970s fame has been gone for 30 years. Many people probably know very little about either Burns or Denver, their memories fading every day. During the mid-1970s, Burns was an unlikely celebrity, with all the trappings that accompanied it (I used to cringe when Johnny Carson would imply that Burns was actually dating women in their early 20s). The novelty of seeing singer-songwriter John Denver in a movie is long gone. So, the general cultural atmosphere surrounding George Burns and this film has changed completely in the past 34 years. "Oh, God!" is still good, but to me the movie used to be a lot better, way back in 1977.