Dear God is a 1996 comedy film distributed by Paramount Pictures, directed by Garry Marshall and starring Greg Kinnear and Laurie Metcalf. Tom Turner, a con artist, works at a dead letter office and begins to answer the letters from people addressed to God. Dear God received generally negative reviews from critics. Siskel & Ebert gave the film two thumbs down upon its release. James Berardinelli gave the film one star and explained, "At least after seeing this movie, I understand where the title came from – starting about thirty minutes into this interminable, unfunny feature, I... began looking at my watch every few minutes and thinking, 'Dear God, is this ever going to end?' A sickeningly bad pastiche of much better pictures – It's a Wonderful Life, Miracle on 34th Street, and Spartacus all leap to mind – Dear God is the worst excuse for a holiday film since Nora Ephron's hideous Mixed Nuts." As of August 2010, film review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes had issued a 12% rating based on reviews from 33 critics.
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| Release date: | November 1, 1996 |
| Directed by: | Garry Marshall |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 112 Minutes |
| Producer: | Steve Tisch |
| Editor: | Debra Neil-Fisher |
| Music by: | James Patrick Dunne, Jeremy Lubbock |
| Cinematography: | Charles Minsky |
| Screenplay by: | Ed Kaplan, Warren Leight |
| Genre: | Comedy |