It brings up issues that we usually don't consider important and think they don't make much impact on our lives when they actually do. Lost love is still love, Eddie. It just takes a different form, that's all. You can't hold their hand... You can't tousle their hair... But when those senses weaken another one comes to life... Memory... Memory becomes your partner. You hold it... you dance with it... Life has to end, Eddie... Love doesn't." I guess I could go on and find 285 things wrong with the TV movie but I won't and in all fairness, it was worth every minute of the three hours it was on, and I wouldn't change one frame.

It will affect the way you think about life after death and the meaning of lives on this planet. Every action you take and every interaction you have has an effect on others. Eddie was angry. He cursed his father for dying and trapping him in this life he’d always wanted to escape.Eddie is floating in a white place. He hears a squealing noise that has haunted his dreams for years, and he feels frightened. But then, the ground forms under his feet. He looks around and sees that the noise is actually the sound of thousands of children playing in a beautiful river. A small girl waves to Eddie, and he goes toward her. She says her name is Tala. Tala’s Story Through their conversation, Eddie finds out that he is dead, and he has arrived in heaven and embarked on a journey through five of its levels, meeting someone who has had a significant impact upon his life or someone upon whom his life had a significant impact.

It follows the life and death of a maintenance man named Eddie. Eddie is killed and sent to heaven, where he encounters five people who had a significant impact upon him while he was alive. When I first heard that it had been made into a film, I was excited. When i heard it was starring Jon Voight, and was going to be on the Hallmark channel, i knew I had to see it. to be fair, i'm currently watching it (again) and am writing the review as it goes. I am very impressed by the direction, the use of colour really drives the mood. The casting is perfect, Jeff Bridges surprised me with a fantastic job of embodying the Blue Man- I don't really need to discuss the other actors, they have brilliant reputations and this film gives you an idea why. Eddie (John Voight) is the responsible for the maintenance of the Ruby Pier amusement park and a veteran of World War II. While trying to save a five year old girl from an accident with ride that is falling after rupturing the wire, Eddie dies. He awakes in Heaven, and the Blue Man (Jeff Daniels) explains him that he will have a journey meeting five people in their heavens that will show the importance of his life before he goes to the next level.I bought the book "The Five People You Meet in Heaven" in November of 2003, and loved it. I was touched by its optimism, story and general texture. I loved the differences between each section, such as the wartime and the love story. It's an incredible book, and I recommend reading it whether or not you have seen the film. The film remains true to the original story, which is just superb. Jeff Daniels was a revelation as the Blue Man. I didn't recognize him at all until I went to IMDb & read the credits. Eddie is lifted by a sudden wind and transported into the mountains. As he walks down a narrow ridge, he realizes that he has regained his aging body, “scars and fat and all.” Eddie comes upon a snowy field in the middle of which is a diner. When he walks up to the door and peers through the glass, he is astonished to see the solitary figure of his father, sitting hunched over in a booth. I vaguely remember when exactly I read this but I remember I read this couple of months before I broke up with my current-boyfriend and it was around the end of the year. Maybe September-October to November. It is significant to know when I read because it is one of the reasons why this book just stays in my mind.

It's too bad that we are now in an age of declining literacy - people who can still read but increasingly choose not to take the time or the trouble. The Five People You Meet In Heaven is a novel that I now want to read as soon as possible, after having viewed it on DVD recently. If you enjoyed Mitch Albom's Tuesdays With Morrie, you will be pleased that his latest work, The Five People You Meet in Heaven, does not suffer in comparison. A made-for-TV movie, released this February on DVD, Five People is about how each person we meet, though appearing insignificant, are part of the vast web of interconnection that affects our life. Jon Voight plays Eddie, an 83-year old mechanic who has worked at the Ruby Pier Amusement Park all his life except for a stint in the army during World War II. The first thing we learn about Eddie is that he is dead, killed in a roller coaster accident while trying to save a little girl. Ruby Pier Amusement park opened again three days after Eddie’s death. The story stayed in the newspaper for a week. Freddy’s Free Fall reopened the next year with a new name—Daredevil Drop. Dominguez took over Eddie’s job as the head of maintenance. Joseph Corvelzchik, The Blue Man: Joseph is the first man Eddie meets in Heaven. His skin had been turned blue when he was a boy because of the repeated ingestion of silver nitrate, thought to be an effective medication at the time.The next thing we find out is that, in heaven, Eddie will meet and talk with five people who were the most influential in his life, people Eddie would probably not think of first, but whose influence becomes slowly and painstakingly revealed. As he re-experiences traumatic events from the past, it soon becomes clear that what they share with him allows him to complete and illuminate the past. Eddie meets "The Blue Man" (Jeff Daniels), part of the sideshow at the park, his Army captain (Michael Imperioli), his wife Marguerite (Dagmara Dominczyk) who died after only a few years of marriage, the wife of the original owner of the Ruby Pier (Ellen Burstyn), and a little Filipino girl named Tala (Nicaela and Shelbie Weigel). After the small funeral, Eddie’s mother was changed. She still spoke and acted as if his father was there. When Eddie tried to remind his mother that his father was gone, she asked where he’d gone off to.