A nice story in Anything Is Possible is unfortunately hoisted on a ridiculous premise. It unfortunately colors the whole film.Young Ethan Bortnick is the child of Jonathan Bennett and Lacey Chabert, a military family with Chabert still in the service and deployed on a relief mission to Japan which has been hit with a tsunami. Chabert goes missing and social services comes knocking and the kid learns that Bennett is not his biological father. Social services wants to take Bortnick away and put him in foster care.Unless someone made a complaint and no one has, no way social services would get involved. They have enough work without looking for cases.In any event the kid is lucky to find homeless veteran David Haines on the street to look out for him. And his musical talents on the piano and keyboard come in handy in trying to save an orphanage. All in the best Mickey Rooney/Judy Garland 'let's put on a show' tradition.Anything Is Possible is a nice family film, but believe me it wouldn't happen this way in real life.

Ethan Bortnick is a gift to our planet, especially children and music-lovers. This is a sweet and inspiring story which beautifully show-cases Ethan's gifts as well as societal concerns worthy of our loving support. Anything Is Possible emanates wisdom and hope of value to all ages.As Einstein said, "There are two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle." Ethan, I'm with you. Anything is possible!With a deep bow of gratitude and respect, ~ Jeanine DuBois, Compassion's Doorway

I bought this film from a Christian bookstore thinking that it was a Christian film. The 5 "Dove" rating on the front is apparently only an indication of the quality of the content and not the quality of the message.After watching the film, it was clear that the movie was not a Christian film. It was clean, but it only glorified humanism and the power of the human spirit. Not once is God even mentioned, and there is no mention of God being the source of the young boys talent. The "faith" mentioned in the film is so ambiguous its practically meaningless. All of the key messages in the film point to humanism and self empowerment. There is no mention of Jesus, not even a nod or an allusion, no scripture, nothing - not even a trite Christian cliché.The whole child prodigy thing is great. Squeaky clean. The movie drags and meanders something awful. Decent acting in parts. Cute kids. Feel good message, but powerless.

Brilliant movie, very touching. It makes no sense that this movie is only rated by 70 people, I just don't get it. I love the actors, especially Ethan Bortnick (and Jonathan Bennett but it's probably just ass well because he looks so damn good...), though I think they could have been more convincing in the reuniting scenes. I love the music! First time he played for real, I was just like, WHAT?! Where the hell did that come from? And Bortnick is just so perfect for the role, I mean, even his voice is great. I feel really talentless right now. I don't normally write reviews, but I just had to do it when nobody else had done it, because this is really a great movie and it is really worth a watch. If you like movies like August Rush, you will definitely like this movie too.