Have a Little Faith (film)

Have a Little Faith is a 2011 Hallmark Hall of Fame made-for-television drama film.^[1] The film is based on Detroit Free Press columnist Mitch Albom’s best-selling nonfiction book of the same name.^[2]

Have a Little Faith
Genre	Drama
Written by	Mitch Albom
Directed by	Jon Avnet
Starring	Laurence Fishburne Bradley Whitford Martin Landau
Theme music composer	Ed Shearmur
Country of origin	United States
Original language	English
Production
Executive producers	Mitch Albom Jon Avnet Brent Shields
Producer	Andrew Gottlieb
Cinematography	Denis Lenoir
Editor	Patrick J. Don Vito
Running time	100 minutes
Production company	Hallmark Hall of Fame
Original release
Network	ABC
Release	November 27, 2011 (2011-11-27)
Related
Beyond the Blackboard A Smile as Big as the Moon

Plot

Writer Mitch Albom is asked to write the eulogy for his childhood rabbi but is reluctant to do so.

Cast

• Laurence Fishburne as Henry Covington
• Martin Landau as Rabbi Albert L. Lewis
• Bradley Whitford as Mitch Albom

Filming

The film was made in and around the state of Michigan.

Broadcast

The film debuted on ABC on November 27, 2011, as the first Hallmark Hall of Fame film broadcast since CBS cancelled the series earlier in 2011. It was the first Hallmark Hall of Fame film broadcast on ABC since 1995.

Ratings

On its November 27, 2011, broadcast, the film earned a 1.1 rating among adults aged 18 to 49, the lowest rating among all programs on the four major networks that night.^[3] The total number of viewers was estimated at 6.5 million, compared to 13.5 million for the Hallmark Hall of Fame presentation of November Christmas on the weekend after Thanksgiving in 2010.^[4]