"The Five People You Meet in Heaven" is a TV adaptation of Mitch Albom's best-selling book. The stars are Jon Voight, Ellen Burstyn, Jeff Daniels, and Michael Imperioli.Eddie is an 83-year-old mechanic at the Ruby Pier amusement park. When a ride collapses, he tries to pull a child out of the way and is killed himself. Dead, he is told by the Blue Man (Daniels) that he will meet five people whom impacted him or whom he impacted in some way. But what's on Eddie's mind is the little girl -- did he save her or not?Eddie's heavenly experience is an interesting one and not what you might expect. Eddie believes that he led a limited life, never going anywhere, never doing anything, that the war shook him up too much, and that he lost everything that mattered. One might think he meets people who say, hey, Eddie, because of you, I'm alive, or you did this wonderful thing for me -- but that's not what happens.Instead, Eddie has to relive his war experiences and the damaging of one leg, he meets someone he unintentionally hurt, he meets someone he never met...and they all tell him the same thing, "there was a reason." But he doesn't know what that was until he meets the last person.If you're a sap like me, you'll need a box of Kleenex. This is a beautifully acted film with a powerful message that we need to be reminded of more often. Jon Voight will yank at your heartstrings unmercifully. But all the acting is terrific. I do agree with one reviewer on this site, it's a little long.This is the kind of film that made Frank Capra famous. It's reminiscent in a way of "It's a Wonderful Life," but not really -- you'll be surprised by the people Eddie meets...and why he meets them.

its about an old man who dies accidentally and reaches heaven where he met five people who somehow were connected to him during his life. And these people were affected by this old man in some or the other way. This film is great because the incidents these five people tell him will make you cry.And you will feel that how our life affects people so much in many ways that we don't even realize.Some moments in this film are so heart touching that you can not stop your tears falling from your eyes. And that's the best part of a GREAT film. If a film succeeds to makes you cry, laugh and connected, what I felt..... all I can say its worth watching....... Don't miss it.

I read this book two years ago, and it was profound. I loved it then, and the movie was as accurate a portrayal as a movie could have been.The intention behind this story was to leave the viewer (reader) with a deeper sense of worth, of self, and of humility. I believe we are here to bring life into question....and we will leave this life to prepare for the answers.There are no accidents...this movie lifts the veil between a fearful mind, and an eager heart. It will make the humblest of men, Kings.If it does not wake you up inside, or leave you with a greater sense of Connectedness and Oneness...you have missed the message entirely.

One of the best movies I have ever seen, "The Five People You Meet in Heaven" could be the 21st century version of "It's a Wonderful Life". It is amazing how Mitch Albom manages to weave together the stories of other lives who touch the life of the main character. Eddie is certainly given a great gift: a chance to see not only how his life was affected by others' lives and how his life in turn affected the lives of those he knew, but also the opportunity to see how all lives are somehow interconnected. They range from those with whom he shared many years to those he met briefly, only in passing. There is a lesson to be learned in each one, though it is generally the same: how did you grow? How were you helped to grow? Whom did you help to grow? What stunts growth? Surely, as Eddie discovers, it is not death which is the means to enter into the deeper discovery of who one is. It was delightful to watch Eddie learn that the capacity to love and forgive is what gives the maximum growth in any human soul.