The Five People You Meet in Heaven
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| Author | Mitch Albom |
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| Language | English |
| Genre | Novel |
| Publisher | Little, Brown & Time Warner Paperbacks |
Publication date | 25 September 2003 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | Print (Hardback & Paperback) |
| Pages | 228 pages (first edition, hardback) & 240 pages (paperback edition) |
| ISBN | ISBN 0-316-72661-3 (first edition, hardback) & ISBN 0-7515-3682-2 (paperback edition) Parameter error in {{ISBNT}}: invalid character |
The Five People You Meet in Heaven is a novel by Mitch Albom, published in 2003. A television movie of the same name was broadcast by ABC in 2004.
Plot introduction
Template:Spoiler Eddie, the main character is the maintenance man at the amusement park nearby, called Ruby Pier. Eddie had desired to study engineering in life, however, he was never able to leave the pier due to the war, World War 2, and his injury during the war. He continued to work there despite his wishes. On his 83rd birthday, he continues his daily routine of checking rides, fixing parts and other jobs of the sort. The last few minutes of his life are concerned with a broken cart on "Freddy's Free Fall", a tower drop ride, that was hanging at the top. A cable had gotten loose inside of it. He saw this and ran toward the accident but the cart had already start to fall. He saw the girl that he had made a pipe cleaner for earlier on under the cart. He dives to the girl as the cart is reaching the bottom and feels two small hands in his. As he does this, he dies without knowing the outcome of the girl. Then, Eddie continues on in an afterlife and meets five people from his life that changed it greatly in some way. He also continues to ask all five people whether or not he saved the little girl getting no response until the end.
Eddie runs into "The Blue Man", a performer in the freak show during Eddie's boyhood who's skin became blue because he took silver natrate, a poison, as medicine. Eddie "kills" the blue man indirectly by chasing after a ball in the street and causing the "Blue Man" to get into a car accident and suffer a heart attack not necessarily from the accident, but also from long term damage to his heart from the silver nitrate. The heart attack causes the blue man to die. He then meets the Captain, Eddie's commanding officer during World War II, who is the main reason for crippling him, but also saving him from a fire and a land mine that the Captain stepped on. He later meets Ruby, the lady after whom the pier was named, Marguerite, Eddie's wife and Tala, a young girl who Eddie unintentionally killed in a fire during the war. Each of these people had their life impacted both in good and bad ways, and they, in turn, impacted Eddie's life. Eddie learns five lessons from them, forgives his father, who he'd always thought of as a coward and a drunkard, and is then welcomed into his heaven: the way Ruby Pier was when he met Marguerite, to wait for the girl he saved as one of her five people in heaven. Template:Spoiler-end
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Film, TV or theatrical adaptations
The television movie version was broadcast on December 5, 2004. It stars Jon Voight, Ellen Burstyn, Michael Imperioli, Jeff Daniels, and Dagmara Dominczyk. Due to the large success of the broadcast a DVD was distributed throughout the United States.
Allusions/references from other works
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There is also a pornographic film by Hustler called The Five People You Meet In Porn.
A book by Brandon Gilvin and Heather Godsey titled Wisdom From The Five People You Meet In Heaven was released, as well as Steve Kellmeyer's Effective Habits of the Five People You Meet in Heaven.
External links
- Official book web site
- The Five People You Meet in Heaven at IMDb
- The Five People You Meet in Heaven at the Internet Book List
- Book Review
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