Heaven

• Director: Diane Keaton
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• Genre: Culture & Society
• Movie Type: Philosophy, New Age & Metaphysics
• Release Year: 1987
• Country: US
• Run Time: 80 minutes
• MPAA Rating: PG13

Plot

The directorial debut of Diane Keaton, the eccentric 1987 documentary Heaven is a free-flowing examination of the images people hold of the afterlife. Rather than taking a historical or narrative approach, the film is built out of numerous segments, each of which centers around a single question: from the general "Are You Afraid to Die?" and "What is Heaven?" to more provocative queries such as "What is God Like?" and "Is There Sex in Heaven?". The bulk of the film consists of expressively lit interviews, about these questions, with a wide variety of individuals. The film searches out people of extremely different backgrounds, from elderly men and women to punkish teenagers. Religious beliefs represented range from intensely fundamentalist Christian preachers to New Age practitioners with a far more non-traditional image of heaven. These interviews are broken up by montages of stock footage, which present images of death and heaven as represented in classic (and not-so-classic) cinema and television. ~ Judd Blaise, All Movie Guide

Cast

Victoria Sellers

Credit

Barbara Ling - Art Director, Tom Stovall - Associate Producer, Diane Keaton - Director, Paul Barnes - Editor, Charles Mitchell - Executive Producer, Tom Kuhn - Executive Producer, Arne Holland - Executive Producer, Arlyne Rothberg - Executive Producer, Howard Shore - Composer (Music Score), Barbara Ling - Production Designer, Frederick Elmes - Cinematographer, Joe Kelly - Cinematographer, Joe Kelly - Producer, Charles Mitchell - Producer, Tom Kuhn - Producer, Skip Lievsay - Sound Editor, Diane Keaton - Screenwriter

Similar Movies

Heavy Petting; Waking Life; Heaven: Beyond the Grave

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