I watched this and had no idea that Pastor Dan was Anakin Skywalker. 

Dan barely lived through a car crash, and while people thought he was dead, he was really visiting Heaven.

This was directed by Michael Polish, who usually works with his twin brother Mark. 

Anyways.

“Pastor Don Piper died January 18, 1989, when a semi-tractor truck crushed his car. Declared dead by the first rescue workers to arrive on the scene, Don’s body lay under a tarp for the next 90 minutes. Don’s soul, meanwhile, was experiencing love, joy, and life like he’d never known before. Don was in Heaven.”

That’s what they say, and who are we to tell them any differently?

He may have spent 90 minutes in the afterlife, but this movie is two hours long.

Kate Bosworth is in this, too. She’s the director’s wife.

What’s wild is that Common Sense Media gave this two stars out of five. I love this quote: “…he’s diagnosed with double pneumonia, a seeming death sentence. As the audience hangs on what may come next, neither the breathing nor the pneumonia are ever mentioned again.”

This was produced by Family Christian Entertainment, founded by Rick Jackson, owner of Family Christian Stores, the largest Christian retail chain in the United States.

This is one of my favorite IMDB notes ever: The song “I Hope You Dance” was performed and released by Lee Ann Womack in the year 2000; the movie takes place in 1989.

This doesn’t cross over into the everyday Christian film moments where the world is against believers and non-Christians are played by total idiots. There’s a great scene where Dan tells a teenager in a wheelchair that he understands, so if that’s what this movie gave me, good. However, so many characters just show up, something important happens, and we never hear about them — or the moment — again.

You can watch this on Tubi.