I Can Only Imagine (2018) on Netflix
PG20181h 50mBiographyDramaFamily
Ten-year-old Bart Millard lives in Greenville, Texas with his mother Adele and his abusive father Arthur, who throws the creations Bart builds into a fire pit. At camp he meets Shannon Street.
- Netflix4.1/5
- IMDb7.3/1021,186 votes
- Rotten Tomatoes69%
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Plot summary
Arthur Millard berates his wife Adele and their son Bart in their Greenville, Texas home, and throws the odds and ends Bart assembles into a fire pit. Bart listens to music through headphones. Adele drives him to a week-long Christian camp, where Shannon Street shows him around; when he comes home he finds a moving truck and his mother's belongings being carried out, and his father denies that his abuse drove her away. Years later Bart and Shannon are dating in high school, and Bart plays football, hoping to please Arthur. He breaks both ankles at practice, which ends his career, and the only elective with an opening is music class, where a teacher hears him sing and gives him a role in the school production of Oklahoma!.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about I Can Only Imagine (2018)
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- It was the fourth best-ever opening for a faith-based film, following The Passion of the Christ with $83.8 million, Son of God with $25.6 million and Heaven Is for Real with $22.5 million.
- Co-director Jon Erwin found it very interesting that in the same year that China restricted Christianity, the country paid for the right to translate I Can Only Imagine and distribute it to their people.
- Broadway actor J. Michael Finley, who sang all the songs in the movie himself, makes his film debut here as Bart Millard.
- John Michael Finley will reprise the main role in a sequel, while Dennis Quaid and Trace Adkins return respectively as Arthur Millard and Scott Brickell, and Milo Ventimiglia joins the cast as Tim Timmons.
