Movies - Oh God!

	Movies - Oh God!

Oh God! is a 1977 comedy film, released on Friday, October 7, and directed by Carl Reiner based on a novel by Avery Corman. The screenplay was written by Larry Gelbart. It features John Denver and George Burns, playing God. Teri Garr plays Denver's wife, Bobbi.

The film inspired two sequels, Oh God! Book II (1980) and Oh God! You Devil (1984), both of which featured Burns reprising his role, but with no other recurring characters from the original story.

Tagline

"Anybody who could turn Lot's wife into a pillar of salt, incinerate Sodom and Gomorrah and make it rain for forty days and forty nights has got to be a fun guy."

Plot

God appears as a kindly old man to Jerry Landers (Denver), an assistant supermarket manager. After some mixups in trying to set up an "interview," He tells Jerry that he has been selected to be His messenger to the modern world, much like a contemporary Moses. A bit timidly at first, Landers' dutifully tells the world of his encounters with God. Understandably scoffed at first, Landers' life is turned upside down as theologians attempt to discredit him. Landers meets with God several other times throughout the course of the story, but almost never as planned meetings. That is, God tries to make their meetings seem incidental and always appears as a mortal.

A remake is planned, starring Ellen DeGeneres.

Trivia

When Jerry is in the hotel room about to give God a quiz, "The Dick Van Dyke Show" (1961), created by Carl Reiner, is on TV.

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