Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times rated the film 3½ out of four stars and said it "achieves something that is uncommonly difficult. It is a spiritual movie with the power to emotionally touch believers, agnostics and atheists --- in that descending order, I suspect. It doesn't say that religious beliefs are real. It simply says that belief is real. And it's a warm-hearted love story . . . I fell for it."
Henry Poole Is Here (2008) premiered at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival and was shown at the Berlin International Film Festival before going into limited release in the U.S. on August 15.
The soundtrack includes "Not Dark Yet" by Bob Dylan, "Song 2" by Blur "Promises" by Badly Drawn Boy and "All roads lead home" by Golden State.
Henry Poole Is Here (2008) is an American comedy-drama film directed by Mark Pellington. The screenplay by Albert Torres focuses on a dying man whose religious neighbor insists the water stain on the side wall of his house is an image of Jesus Christ.