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Created Mar 13, 2012 08:51PM PST • Edited Nov 28, 2019 02:07AM PST

1. Quality

2. Summary

   OK 2.5

   A Mormon missionary’s time in Tonga makes for an entertaining family movie, if you can leave the proselytizing aside. The Other Side of Heaven is also an appealing period piece, first in the 1950s United States, but mostly in the South Pacific Islands of that era.

   Based on the biography of the missionary it depicts, it was made by a Mormon production company. John Groberg went on to become a high official in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

   Bottom line: Watch with the kids and don’t over think it.

4. Acting

   Good 3.0

   Christopher Gorham and Joe Folau are appealing if bland in the lead roles.

   Anne Hathaway costars as a spunky sweetheart back home, made just before she became a star in The Princess Bride. Unfortunately she’s barely on screen after the opening scenes.

5. Male Stars Good 3.0

6. Female Stars Good 3.0

7. Female Costars Good 3.0

8. Male Costars Good 3.0

10. Film

    OK 2.5

11. Direction OK 2.5

12. Play OK 2.5

13. Music Good 3.0

14. Visuals Very Good 3.5
15. Content

16. Edge

    Tame 1.5

17. Sex Titillating 1.6

18. Violence Fierce 1.6

19. Rudeness Polite 1.2

21. Reality

    Glib 1.1

22. Circumstantial Glib 1.4

23. Biological Natural 1.0

24. Physical Natural 1.0