Have a Little Faith (film)
Have a Little Faith | |
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Genre | Drama |
Written by | Mitch Albom |
Directed by | Jon Avnet |
Starring | Laurence Fishburne Bradley Whitford Martin Landau |
Theme music composer | Ed Shearmur |
Country of origin | United States |
Original language | English |
Production | |
Executive producers | Mitch Albom Jon Avnet Brent Shields |
Producer | Andrew Gottlieb |
Cinematography | Denis Lenoir |
Editor | Patrick J. Don Vito |
Running time | 100 minutes |
Production company | Hallmark Hall of Fame |
Original release | |
Network | ABC |
Release | November 27, 2011 |
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Have a Little Faith is a 2011 Hallmark Hall of Fame made-for-television drama film.[1] The film is based on Detroit Free Press columnist Mitch Albom’s best-selling nonfiction book of the same name.[2]
Plot
[edit]Writer Mitch Albom is asked to write the eulogy for his childhood rabbi but is reluctant to do so.
Cast
[edit]- Laurence Fishburne as Henry Covington
- Martin Landau as Rabbi Albert L. Lewis
- Bradley Whitford as Mitch Albom
Filming
[edit]The film was made in and around the state of Michigan.
Broadcast
[edit]The film debuted on ABC on November 27, 2011, as the first Hallmark Hall of Fame film broadcast since CBS cancelled the series earlier in 2011. It was the first Hallmark Hall of Fame film broadcast on ABC since 1995.
Ratings
[edit]On its November 27, 2011, broadcast, the film earned a 1.1 rating among adults aged 18 to 49, the lowest rating among all programs on the four major networks that night.[3] The total number of viewers was estimated at 6.5 million, compared to 13.5 million for the Hallmark Hall of Fame presentation of November Christmas on the weekend after Thanksgiving in 2010.[4]
References
[edit]- ^ "Hallmark Announces Unprecedented Agreements to Air Hallmark Hall of Fame on ABC Television Network and Hallmark Channel". hallmark.com. Retrieved July 7, 2011.
- ^ mitchalbom.com https://web.archive.org/web/20120626151035/http://mitchalbom.com/d/news/7166/have-little-faith-movie. Archived from the original on 2012-06-26. Retrieved Jan 9, 2017.
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(help)CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link) - ^ Media Life: "ABC's Thanksgiving turkey: 'Have a Little Faith'", November 28, 2011. Archived January 12, 2012, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Kepler, Adam W. (2011-11-28). "Hallmark Hall of Fame Has Rough Start on ABC". The New York Times. Retrieved 2011-12-02.
External links
[edit]- Have a Little Faith at IMDb
- Have a Little Faith[permanent dead link] on slanting-n Archived 2018-08-30 at the Wayback Machine
- 2011 television films
- 2011 films
- 2011 biographical drama films
- Films based on non-fiction books
- Biographical television films
- American drama television films
- Hallmark Hall of Fame episodes
- Films shot in Michigan
- Films based on works by Mitch Albom
- Films directed by Jon Avnet
- Films scored by Edward Shearmur
- 2010s American films
- 2010s English-language films
- English-language biographical drama films
- American drama television film stubs