Gates of Heaven

Name: Gates of Heaven
Genre: Documentary
Duration: 1 h 25 min
Rating: 7.3
Cast: Lucille Billingsley, Zella Graham, Cal Harberts

IMDb RATING

7.3/10

6.4K

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Documentary

A documentary about a pet cemetery in California, and the people who have pets buried there.A documentary about a pet cemetery in California, and the people who have pets buried there.A documentary about a pet cemetery in California, and the people who have pets buried there.

Director
- Errol Morris
Stars

See production info at IMDbPro

IMDb RATING

7.3/10

6.4K

YOUR RATING

Director
- Errol Morris
Stars

See production info at IMDbPro

Awards
- 1 win total

Trivia
German film director Werner Herzog had made a bet with fledgling director (and current film student) Errol Morris that if Morris made a film about pet cemeteries, Herzog would eat his shoe. Morris went on to make this film, so Herzog kept his promise. The meal is documented in the film Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe (1980).

Quotes
Mourning pet owner: There's your dog; your dog's dead. But where's the thing that made it move? It had to be something, didn't it?

Connections
Featured in Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe (1980)

User reviews34

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can't stop watching it

I saw this film for the first time about 2 years ago on IFC and thankfully I videotaped it. Since then, I've watched it 10 or 11 times and it always fascinates me. I especially like the last third of the film in which we meet the harberts family who own the Bubbling Well Pet Cemetary in Nappa Valley. They all seem so sincere and at the same time they crack me up. Errol Morris just has a way of letting real life people go on and on about a subject without it ever becoming boring...