Oh, and throw in a country/western singer who only made a few movie appearances, and you have the sleeper of 1977, a comic gem that takes punches almost prophetically at evangelists who only a decade later would take public whacks in real life. In a way, the card trick is a bit too lowly for God but he wraps it up nicely.īack in the late 1970's as "the blockbuster" was just building up steam with several disaster films, sci-fi special effects epics and the occasional historical epic, bigger wasn't always better, and in the case of "Oh, God", an adorable aging comic had one of the biggest hits of his long career. Burns is as sharp as a knife and the quiz is especially pointed. Some probably would take offense because this is a particular God and not one of any religion. It takes some sharp jabs at organized religion and the world in general. John Denver is good as the nice everyman. George Burns as God is a stroke of genius. It's a bit of light comedy mixed with a serious message. A group of religious scholars including the bombastic self-righteous Reverend Willie Williams (Paul Sorvino) gives him a quiz of 50 questions to give to God. He gets a spot on the Dinah Shore Show and he's hounded by publicity. His boss George Summers reduces him to bag boy. God wants him to spread his message of faith but he won't reveal himself to anybody else. He keeps getting notes from God (George Burns) for an interview. Jerry Landers (John Denver) is a supermarket assistant manager non-religious nice guy with a wife Bobbie (Teri Garr) and two kids. We make the problems only we can clean them up. But it ought to be required viewing for all of us. I'll bet this film isn't run at Liberty Baptist University ever. Which brings us to a courtroom scene, the goal of every player. Burns doesn't like him and he tells Denver to tell him so.
I truly enjoyed Paul Sorvino's pompous pompadoured reverend.
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Free will folks is the key, he gave us the world and humankind made it what it is today. Larry Gelbart who wrote the script which brought an Oscar nomination to Oh God filled it with some sly and very profound observations on the human condition. Burns with that disarming manner makes one droll Divine Deity. Which is maybe the reason God who appears to Denver in many places and guises as George Burns. You can't get more average and ordinary than Denver a decent soul raising a decent family in this crazy world with not any formal religious affiliation. Oh God examines the proposition that God might speak to a lesser human being in this case Assistant Supermarket manager John Denver. If God speaks to Matthew Harrison Brady "suppose a Cates or a Darwin might have the audacity to think that God might speak to them".
There's a great line from Inherit The Wind where in examining Fredric March on the stand Spencer Tracy deflates March who is on that prosecution team as a celebrity religious authority.
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