Movie Review: Miracles from heaven- How do we explain the impossible?
Director: Patricia Riggen
Year of release: 2016
Running time: 109 minutes
The movie miracles from heaven is an American movie that thrives on telling us about a Christian family called the beams whose 10 year old daughter Anna (Kylie Rogers) suffered from an incurable disease which made her stomach get bigger every day.
Miracles from heaven is based on the incredible true story of the Beam family. When Christy (Jennifer Garner) discovers her 10-year-old daughter Anna (Kylie Rogers) has a rare, incurable disease, she becomes a ferocious advocate for her daughter’s healing as she searches for a solution.
They went from one hospital to another hospital but there was no solution to the poor girl’s sickness, Christy heard of a children hospital at Boston and she decided to go there with her daughter hoping that she would be cured.
After spending all their life savings and the family became broke, the doctor told Christy that he is unable to help her poor daughter so they went back to their home at Texas feeling dejected, not long after the discharge from the hospital Anna has a freak accident, Anna along with her bigger sister Abbie, climb up to a very high branch of an old cotton tree.
While they are on that branch, it begins to break. Anna goes to the trunk for safety, whereupon stepping on it, she falls in a hole to the base of the tree. When Christy finds out what has happened, she desperately calls her husband, as well as the fire department. Anna is then rescued by the firefighters, who warn Christy to expect the worst by saying that nobody could fall 30 feet without sustaining a serious injury; broken bones or paralysis. Once out, Anna is airlifted to a hospital, where a battery of tests are run on her, and all of the tests come back negative. Other than a minor concussion, Anna is uninjured.
An extraordinary miracle unfolds in the wake of her dramatic rescue that leaves medical specialists mystified, her family restored and their community inspired. This movie is very stirring and emotionally moving. It really captures the emotions and the crisis of faith that must be the experience of those who must watch their children suffer in any way.
The directing is very good and the cinematography is well done. When I started watching the movie I expected the characters to be somewhat plastic. To my delight, this was not the case. The characters seemed real, human, and relatable.
However, it is the performance of Jennifer Garner as Christy Beam (the Mom) and Kylie Rogers as Anna Beam (the daughter) that put it over the top. I rate the movie 9/10
