Flat stale unimpressive.

Rating: 3/10 (2 January 2005)

OMG how can this film have a rating of 8.3 on IMDb (boggle) This movie is atrocious, it offers nothing new. It gives us the same rehashed climax given in The Polar Express "Believe". (At least the polar express was more genuine.) EVERYTHING in this movie and how the characters interact was clichéd, struggling mum, father who passed away due to sickness, child having difficulty coming to terms with dads death. Mum in the process of dying herself but being very stoic about it all. Overbearing grandmother, who is like an evil witch but is redeemed in the end, she does have a heart after all.
Enter a writer who has yet to find his true meaning interacts with the above family and presto "genius" play script results. He sorts out the whole familys problems, everyone is told in the power of "Belief" and we all live happily ever after.
The scene with the children in the theatre who laugh was so contrived so fake that it made me cringe.
This is one of the worst films I have seen in quite a while. The performances are good but hardly inspiring, I shake my head at the 8.3 rating.
2/10