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Oh, God!
Anybody who could turn Lot's wife into a pillar of salt, incinerate Sodom and Gomorrah and make it rain for forty days and forty nights has got to be a fun guy.
Anybody who could turn Lot's wife into a pillar of salt, incinerate S...
Comedy, Fantasy - 1977
6.6
74%
56
When God appears to an assistant grocery manager as a good natured old man, the Almighty selects him as his messenger for the modern world.
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Rated:
PG
Runtime:
98 min
Release date:
7 Oct 1977
Country:
US
Languages:
English
Budget:
$0
Revenue:
$41,687,243
Awards:
Nominated for 1 Oscar. 3 wins & 3 nominations total

Top Critics Reviews

rotten:
The result plays like an over-extended version of the Reiner/Mel Brooks 2000-Year-Old Man sketches.
– ,
Time Out,
26 Jan 2006
rotten:
An uneasy amalgam or inconsistent attitudes, without enough humor or zaniness to divert attention from its questionable premise.
– Janet Maslin,
New York Times,
9 May 2005
fresh:
Carl Reiner's Oh, God! is a treasure of a movie: A sly, civilized, quietly funny speculation on what might happen if God endeavored to present himself in the flesh yet once again to forgetful Man.
– Roger Ebert,
Chicago Sun-Times,
23 Oct 2004
rotten:
George Burns seems to be warming up for a good Second City sketch on God's return to earth as a rumpled vaudevillian, but it soon becomes clear that director Carl Reiner isn't kidding -- he really thinks this movie is going to save the world.
– Dave Kehr,
Chicago Reader,
1 Jan 2000
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