My Daddy's in Heaven (2017)

My Daddy’s in Heaven: Directed by Waymon Boone. With Lee Benton, Corbin Bernsen, Michael Aaron Carico, Jim E. Chandler. Becca, Adam, and their 5-year-old daughter Acie are a perfect family until a tragic accident during a July 4th celebration kills Adam. Struggling with grief, Becca decides she needs to leave the family farm and all its memories. She leaves Acie with her grandfather Ben and visits her friend from school, June. With the best intent, June offers Becky plenty of distraction from her family life. Fueled by her anger at G*d and loss of faith, Becky starts drinking and making other self-destructive choices. After Becky is arrested, Ben threatens to keep Acie until Becky is back on track. A chance encounter in a bus station with a traveler gives Becky what she needs to restore her faith and reunite with her family.

“There is a defining moment in every personu0026#39;s life, where we come to a fork in the road. We can go the cute (an inaccurate) cliché route and u0026quot;take itu0026quot; or like most people under duress, the fork in the road can lead to despair.This movie – My Daddy is in Heaven – is a lot more complicated than a cliché.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThe casting choices were well done, as evidenced by the characters progressively becoming more intense and believable as the movie went on. Jenn Gotzon (Godu0026#39;s Country, Godu0026#39;s Not Dead 2, Doonby and more ) played the part of Rebecca (as Becca Smith) with so much emotion, you could tell she was all in, as far as being in character was concerned. Her counterpart was Corbin Bensen (L.A. Law, Major League II, and others), who played her old-school, hard-knuckled yet easy-going father. Bensen is now a staple in a lot of Christian or Faith-based movies.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eJenn Gotzonu0026#39;s character, Becca Smith (Rebecca Crownover) has one major crisis of Faith in God, after another, through much of the movie, until she comes to a place where the defining moment presented itself. After the death of her husband Adam, armed with the realization that God had an entirely different plan than letting her husband live, Becca leaves her farm life and heads for the city to live with her long-lost best friend, June. Things seem to go off the rail from there….as normally happens when tragedy weakens faith,u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThe principals were wonderful in this movie and (Acie) was fabulous, indeed. Her acting was mature beyond her years. There were a few lighthearted moments, but the serious message of the perseverance through tragedy got through loud clear.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eHere is where I think this fast-moving family movie can be of tremendous value to people from all walks of life. There is no one alive who has not had tragedy in their lives. The thing is when that defining moment comes where folks, in the depths of pain and despair, are faced two choices, where do they come down. Many react like Becca Smith in u0026quot;My Daddy is in Heavenu0026quot;, when she turned her back temporarily on God. Unfortunately, most never come back. Maybe this movie will help put some perspective on tragedy when Faith comes under fire. There is hope if we are open to it seeing the entire picture. Hope can only be found in God. Here is where My Daddy is in Heaven is so worthwhile to the narrative of life today!nRead less”