# A Little Trip to Heaven (2005)

> An insurance investigator enters an isolated family’s million-dollar death-benefit fraud and finds compassion becoming a dangerous liability.

Canonical page: https://ember.film/movie/9024

## Facts

- Runtime: 98 min
- Genres: Drama, Thriller
- Director: Baltasar Kormákur
- Cast: Forest Whitaker, Julia Stiles, Peter Coyote, Jeremy Renner, Iddo Goldberg, Joanna Scanlan, Philip Jackson, Alfred Harmsworth
- TMDB rating: 5.4/10
- IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0420740/

## Ember's analysis

- Pacing: slow
- Intensity: strong
- Complexity: layered
- Violence: moderate
- Mood: bleak, morally uneasy, slow burn, late night viewing, winter evening

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