Hallmark Entertainment produced the three hour TV event of The Five People You Meet in Heaven, which aired on ABC-TV in December 2004 with an all star cast of Academy Award Winner Jon Voight, as Eddie, Academy Award winner Ellen Burstyn, as Ruby, Emmy Award Winner Michael Imperioli, as the Captain, and Golden Globe nominee Jeff Daniels, as the Blue Man.
It was the first film of his books for which Mitch wrote the screenplay. Directed by Lloyd Kramer, the film was critically acclaimed and the most watched TV movie of the year, with 18.6 million viewers.
Jon Voight, Ellen Burstyn, Jeff Daniels, and Michael Imperioli star in the film adaptation of Mitch Albom's The Five People You Meet in Heaven.
...You Meet in Heaven
Director
Eddie
Ruby
Blue Man
Marguerite
Young Eddie
Captain
Eddie's father
Eddie's mother
Eddie as a boy
Tala
Tala
Young Joe
Mickey Shea
Dominguez
Willy
Morton
Smitty
Rabozzo
Amy
Japanese Guard 1
Japanese Guard 2
Pastor
Swing Band Singer