The Man Who Sued God

October. 25,2001      R
Rating:
6.4
Trailer Synopsis Cast

A lawyer becomes a fisherman from frustration. When his one piece of property, his boat, is struck by lightning and destroyed he is denied insurance money because it was “an act of God”. He re-registers as a lawyer and sues the insurance company and, as God’s representative, The Church.

Billy Connolly as  Steve Myers
Judy Davis as  Anna Redmond
Colin Friels as  David Myers
Wendy Hughes as  Jules Myers
Emily Browning as  Rebecca Myers
Bille Brown as  Gerry Ryan
John Howard as  Edward Piggott
Vincent Ball as  Cardinal
Frank Whitten as  Primate
Linal Haft as  Rabbi

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Reviews

Karry
2001/10/25

Best movie of this year hands down!

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Kaelan Mccaffrey
2001/10/26

Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.

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Aryana
2001/10/27

Easily the biggest piece of Right wing non sense propaganda I ever saw.

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Isbel
2001/10/28

A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

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boyesbo
2001/10/29

I loved this film. This is meaningful if you share my criteria for enjoyable movies:Mustn't shock me into nightmares. Must be well acted by engaging characters. Must touch the heart and keep me interested throughout. Must draw me fully into the "consideration" or thematic intention of the story, sparking my own pondering of life.This film does all this and more. But most of all, it entertained me! The story has a clever, but really believable premise... a quirky character (like me and my friends), finds himself blind-sided by an unpredictable series of events, and starts to question why and how this could have happened. Rather than turn into emotional pulp, he rises to the occasion with humor, facing the unknown with growing intuition of how this "place" works... how mysterious and fluid life is... and what is required of a person to be a "man" (male or female).But there is not an ounce of heaviness in this consideration of life and Reality. It's done with humor and surprises that keep me tickled throughout without dropping the thread of the deeper questioning.I loved it, and have recommended it to all my friends.

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Prophet Tenebrae
2001/10/30

One cannot deny that this is a piece that the "Big Yang" presumably made for the money. In many aspects, this is certainly very little in this film that deviates from the standard formula.It all revolves around good old Billy... so much so that toward the end when they are trying to fill the film out to 90 minutes, he spends a lot of time just loitering unwholesomely in Churches...I suppose that in some ways the idea behind this is wholly novel, really it never escapes the fact it wants to be a schmaltzy romance and a legal drama. Certainly the emphasis seems to be on Conolly all the way, perhaps to the exclusion of all else. As mentioned before, it can never be more than a star-vehicle for him.It does actually have a good point to make but really, any kind of point it tries to make it ignored for the bland happy ending and classic "bad guys lose" scenario.

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sammy
2001/10/31

I really did enjoy this movie, Billy Connelly is both hilarious and thought-provoking, and to me he was the perfect choice for this part. There was nothing I really disliked about this story, although I did wonder at the end what happened to the dog... Definately worth watching.8/10

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Kayls
2001/11/01

I went to see this film with high expectations, Billy is usually so funny with his observational humour! The title had me wondering and the storyline is very clever and well thought out.Half way through I noticed (trying not to be biased because of its low-budget status) that the script did the storyline no justice. The only funny parts I expected came from the constant bad mouthing of Connelly and the odd line from the Priests etc. The worst was yet to come.(SPOILERS)Just when the film was getting juicy (when the church could only win by proving God DOESN'T exist) Connelly falls for (in matters of the heart and into bed with) the annoying reporter that oh-so-sweetly accepts the fact that he cost her her job!Basically the end turns out so that he drops his case because God's "fury" turned him to the new love of his life and they live happily ever after, yada yada yada, then he sponges off the media and makes a few Australian bucks!Good start to the story and very controversial in its own right, bad ending and even worse acting on the reporters part, i can't even remember her name!

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