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Just in time for Easter, “Miracles from Heaven,” starring Jennifer Garner, opens TODAY! Below is a synopsis of the new movie.

Anna Beam (Kylie Rogers) lives with a rare, incurable disorder that leaves her unable to digest food. Despite the dire diagnosis, devoted mom Christy (Jennifer Garner) relentlessly searches for a way to save her beloved daughter. Everything changes in an instant when Anna tells an amazing story of a visit to heaven after surviving a headlong tumble into a tree. Her family and doctors become even more baffled when the young girl begins to show signs of recovering from her fatal condition.

Garner said “Miracles from Heaven” has restored her faith. Below is an excerpt of the USA Today article “Jennifer Garner Finds Faith, Again, in ‘Miracles From Heaven'” by Elysa Gardner.

Faith has long played a role in Garner’s life: She and estranged husband Ben Affleck had their three children baptized at the same United Methodist church she attended while growing up in West Virginia. “My parents and little sister and her family still go there,” Garner says.

But “I think I had become complacent in raising my children, almost as though (I thought) they were going to receive the ground beneath their feet that heaven had given me through osmosis,” she says. Returning home after filming, Garner raised the subject with her kids, “and they said, ‘Well, we want to go to church.’

In addition to Garner and Rogers, “Miracles from Heaven” also stars Martin Henderson, John Carroll Lynch, Eugenio Derbez and Queen Latifah. The movie was produced by Joe Roth, Bishop T.D. Jakes & DeVon Franklin of Franklin Entertainment.

Below is a trailer for the film.

The movie is based on the true story written about in “Miracles from Heaven: A Little Girl, Her Journey to Heaven, and Her Amazing Story of Healing,” by Christy Beam which was published last year. Below is the book description.

In a remarkable true story of faith and blessings, a mother tells of her sickly young daughter, how she survived a dangerous accident, her visit to Heaven and the inexplicable disappearance of the symptoms of her chronic disease.

Annabel Beam spent most of her childhood in and out of hospitals with a rare and incurable digestive disorder that prevented her from ever living a normal, healthy life. One sunny day when she was able to go outside and play with her sisters, she fell three stories headfirst inside an old, hollowed-out tree, a fall that may well have caused death or paralysis. Implausibly, she survived without a scratch. While unconscious inside the tree, with rescue workers struggling to get to her, she visited heaven. After being released from the hospital, she defied science and was inexplicably cured of her chronic ailment.

“Miracles From Heaven” will change how we look at the world around us and reinforce our belief in God and the afterlife.

Below is a video featuring the real Christy and Annabel Beam.

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