Dear God's plot can actually be summed up pretty easy - conman forced with jail time or getting a job gets a job in the post office and ends up answering the request of somebodies letter to God, his co-workers end up joining in this good deed even with the legality of it all.
Greg Kinnear is the said conman who does go through the predictable change but it's not a bad thing, I may have watched this on the night, this probably more better suited to the afternoon, a film that's ultimate goal is to give you a nice warm fuzzy feeling about (it's even set around Christmas time - but that's not an overbearing part of the movie), he's always been a pretty decent actor but he only ever touches on a good role every now and again and he is - I am going to go with the overall word that represents this movie - likable...
Yeah, he's likable, everything's likable - it's not meant to threatening - grumpy characters hearts melt, people change for the good - the ending is even crowd cheering the goodness, there's some decent supporting cast including Laurie Metcalf, Tim Conway and in a smaller role Jack Klugman, Maria Pitillo as Kinnear's love interest is not bad per say, she's just not written as much other then be a single mother and be pretty
The film's heart is in the right place as the films message is nice the have-not's doing something for the other have-not's, there's enough that's funny (in a light sort of way - where you'll smile rather then laugh out loud)
Overall, it's say it with me - LIKABLE - The film is not really meant to be anything more I think and so for that reason it's such a short round up this time because they are only some many times you can say that.
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