Then two men come into his life, and he realizes something's missing. He lives in Detroit and is happily married, he's an award-winning sportswriter, a must-read newspaper columnist, a screenwriter, a radio and television broadcaster. What he taught was that if you have a little faith, sometimes great things can happen, like a jaded New York reporter finding truth in the intangible - and how sports columnists can end up writing best sellers about God.Mitch Albom (Bradley Whitford) has a pretty great life. Perhaps I fell for Albom’s movie because of what I learned from the teachings of a Detroit minister, Jack Boland. Going back and forth between the rabbi and the reverend, the movie weaves an interesting tale of faith - the rabbi’s (unwavering), the reverend’s, (reborn) and Albom’s (born from the experiences of these two men)
His biggest challenge came when he was sent to Detroit to take over a church that had fallen into horrible disrepair. Covington had quit school, was himself convicted of manslaughter and eventually became a crack dealer - and user.Īfter making a vow to God one horrible night that if he lived to see morning, he’d turn his life over, Covington joined a church, eventually becoming a pastor. Henry Covington (Laurence Fishburne), whose mother had shot his father when he was a boy. Over the course of the next eight years, Albom visited with Lewis, learning not just about the man - a devoted, learned, relentlessly curious and faithful man of God - but important life lessons.īack in Detroit, inspired by the rabbi, Albom begins to write about the city’s poor. Hardly, answers the rabbi, but he does like to be prepared. The movie begins when Albom (Bradley Whitford) visits his New Jersey childhood synagogue, where he is asked by his former rabbi Albert Lewis (Martin Landau) to write his eulogy. The story centers around cynical Albom’s simultaneous relationship with two clergymen of two different faiths in different parts of the country. It seems that every time someone deep starts thinking about death, they call Albom - and he finds a day of the week for them.īecause I am not normally a fan of saccharine-sweet “Hallmark Hall of Fame” movies, or Albom’s brand of inspiration (“ Tuesdays with Morrie” etc.), I found myself surprised to be so touched by the latest movie based on his non-fiction book, “ Have A Little Faith.” Detroit sportswriter and mega-bestselling author Mitch Albom has made quite a nice living from writing about older men who die after imparting to him great life lessons.
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