Rotten
The result plays like an over-extended version of the Reiner/Mel Brooks 2000-Year-Old Man sketches.
Time Out
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.
1977 · 1h 38m · PG
Comedy, Fantasy
Directed by
Carl Reiner
Overview
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.
Director and cast
- Carl Reiner Director
- John Denver as Jerry Landers
- George Burns as God
- Teri Garr as Bobbie Landers
- Donald Pleasence as Doctor Harmon
- Ralph Bellamy as Sam Raven
- William Daniels as George Summers
- Barnard Hughes as Judge Baker
- Paul Sorvino as Reverend Willie Williams
- Barry Sullivan as Bishop Reardon
- Dinah Shore as Herself
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
74%
Tomatometer
Rotten
An uneasy amalgam or inconsistent attitudes, without enough humor or zaniness to divert attention from its questionable premise.
Janet Maslin, New York Times
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
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
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