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I'm a big fan of Neale Donald Walsch's Conversations With God books — not solely due to their content, which to a better trained eye may be unremarkable, but because these books initiated me into the realm of philosophical texts. If everyone is fortunate enough to have an eye-opening experience that teaches them there are more things in Heaven and Earth than they'd dreamt of, this was mine.

So imagine my disappointment when, ten years later, the film adaptation, released last month on DVD after a limited 2006 theatrical release, turned out to be a big yawn.

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