Dear God is a heartwarming, sentimental comedy from 1996. Except they forgot to make it heartwarming, sentimental or funny.
Greg Kinnear stars as a con man Tom Turner, who is forced to take a job or go to jail. He ends up in the main Los Angeles post office working in the dead letter office. The "DLO" is populated by a group of eccentric characters including Laurie Metcalf and Tim Conway. My question is, when will script writers realize that eccentric does not always mean funny? The film also wastes the comedic talents of Hector Elizondo and Roscoe Lee Brown.
Through an accident Tom ends up sending a woman who wrote a letter to God his paycheck. His fellow workers think he was doing a good deed and start answering other letter that people write to God and end up in the dead letter office. This inspires a wave of good deeds throughout Los Angeles, but complicates things for Tom, who was planning to use the idea as a way to scam money from people.
This film is a train wreck of ideas, poorly directed by the once talented Garry Marshall, and definitely not worth your time.
At The Movie House rating * star.
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