In the film, Todd, his wife Sonja and older daughter Cassie are faced with stigma from townsfolk who hesitate to believe Colton’s story of visiting the afterlife, testing both their faith and community bonds.Ĭolton, now a 14-year-old high school freshman, says he still has vivid memories of the visit to heaven. “I told it reminded me of ‘Field of Dreams’ and ‘The Sixth Sense,’ two movies I consider great.” “I love the uniqueness of this story,” says Wallace, whose parents founded a church in rural Tennessee and who later started his own ecumenical church in his home. Jakes) will appeal not just to its natural religious constituency but to secular audiences as well. Todd, a pastor in the small town of Imperial, Neb., told the story of his son’s claim to have visited heaven in the best-selling 2010 book, “Heaven Is for Real.” And a movie adaptation, starring Greg Kinnear as Todd, is out on April 16, a few days before Easter.ĭirector Randall Wallace, who wrote big-budget flicks “Braveheart” and “Pearl Harbor” and directed “Secretariat,” is hoping “Heaven Is for Real” (produced by mega-church pastor T.D. He told his parents he sat on Jesus’ lap and met family members who were long dead before he was born. In the ensuing months, he talked about leaving his body and visiting heaven.
Colton remembered being there, but also added details: angels singing to him to keep him calm as he rose out of the bed, and seeing his dad praying and his mom on the phone.
But the shocking part came months later, when the family drove past the hospital. Donna Svennevik/DisneyĪgainst the odds, Colton pulled through and was out of the hospital in just a few days. Colton Burpo insists he went to heaven during a brush with death 10 years ago. “You’re going to take my son?” he shouted.
His father, Todd, found a small room, slammed the door and, with tears streaming down his face, started raging out loud at God. When doctors told his parents Colton might not survive surgery, his mother, Sonja, phoned friends and asked them to pray. Colton Burpo was not quite 4 years old in 2003 when his appendix burst and he lay unconscious in a hospital bed.
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