- Actors: Chrissy Metz, Topher Grace, Josh Lucas, Mike Colter, Rebecca Staab
- Director: Roxann Dawson
- Disc Format: Blu-ray
- Language: English
- Dubbed: French, Spanish
- Region: Region A/1
- Number of discs: 2
- Rated: Parental Guidance SuggestedPG
- Studio: 20th Century Fox
- Release Date: July 16, 2019
American faith-based films love their child-in-peril
narratives like no other, with the possible exception of underdog sports
stories. They also love cherry-picking the ones in which the child recovers
despite all medical professionals predicting otherwise, making them films more
interested in encouraging the belief in miracles than a need for faith itself.
In other words, American Christian-made movies tend to celebrate
wish-fulfillment rather than faith in God’s plan, leaving audience members
having suffered real loss with unsavory questions about why their faith wasn’t
rewarded in the same way. Breakthrough
almost addresses this troubling question through the filter of the central
survivor, but quickly sacrifices it for easily digestible messages of
inspiration and repaired relationship.