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As the huge popularity of The Chosen has proven, faith-based movies and shows are possibly at their most popular in quite some time right now. Last year, The Chosen creator Dallas Jenkins brought The Best Christmas Pageant Ever to the big screen, with the likes of Judy Greer, Pete Holmes, Molly Belle Wright, and Lauren Graham helping take a faith-based Christmas movie to impressive box office success. Since then, the film has become a hit on streaming, as have many other notable movies from the same genre, including a movie that remains one of the highest-grossing faith-based movies of all time.

At the time of writing, the 2014 hit Heaven Is for Real is one of the ten most-streamed movies on Netflix in the U.S. Featuring a cast that boasts the likes of Greg Kinnear, Yellowstone star Kelly Reilly, Thomas Haden Church, and Margo Martindale, Heaven Is for Real was both written and directed by Randall Wallace, the man behind the Oscar-nominated Braveheart screenplay. The film earned $100 million at the global box office back in 2014, split between a domestic haul of $91 million and a further $9 million from overseas markets. Additionally, the film earned almost half its box office return in domestic DVD and Blu-ray sales. For those yet to see Heaven Is for Real, here’s a look at the movie’s synopsis:

“Small-town businessman, pastor and volunteer firefighter Todd Burpo (Greg Kinnear) and his wife, Sonja (Kelly Reilly), are struggling to make ends meet during a tough year. After their young son, Colton (Connor Corum), undergoes emergency surgery, Todd and Sonja are overjoyed at the child’s miraculous recovery. However, the Burpos are unprepared for what happens next — Colton says that he went to heaven and back, and tells his parents things that he couldn’t possibly know.”