Instead he keeps film focused and even keeled, while tossing in good humorous bits to keep up the levity. A film with God as a character could've gone anywhere, but Reiner doesn't take too many liberties with the material at hand. The film doesn't try to be something more than what it already is. The real genius of this film is that the comedy is very sedate while still being funny. Denver lets his own character shine in this performance.
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The Jerry Landers character he portrays is honest, thoughtful, earnest and full of conviction.
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What's even more amazing is the fact that, to the best of my knowledge anyway, Denver gives us an exceptionally convincing performance but with little professional experience. That is until George Burns beckons him hither. Denver portrays an honest grocery store manager whose sole purpose is to satisfy his customers. Veteran Vaudevillian George Burns' does a superb job portraying the Almighty, and does so with sublime humor and grandfatherly frankness.
Instead this God approaches the problem with a more thoughtful plan. But Burns' God doesn't go about it by creating apocalyptic scenarios to threaten nor coax mankind into the task. Burns' character is one with a need that must be fulfilled. In "Oh God" we have a creator who wants to instill a little reassurement to Earthbound souls. DeMille's fire-and-brimstone God from "The Ten Commandments." Nor is Burns' God the detached entity that is less hands on than God's foes in "The Exorcist" or "Omen" series. Burns plays a grandfatherly God who is concerned, though not wrathful. The notion of a higher or supreme being asking one of us mortals to do his bidding is nothing new, but to place the gentle and warm spin on it, and to take that legend out of its biblical era context, and place it in (what was then) contemporary times, is really a stroke of genius. Something tells me this film would work a lot better if it was shot today and by that I don't mean a remake, but if somehow we could transport the cast and crew (Reiner, Burns, Denver, et al) to 2004, let them shoot the film, and release it, it would be the super sleeper smash hit of the decade. It may take him getting a meeting with so-called experts, theologians, before he is taken seriously, or not, as some of those, such as Reverend Willie Williams, God knows is using religion for their own as opposed to societal benefit. Jerry believes he has no other option but to continue to do this job for God despite these negative effects. Once Jerry does gain a wider audience, he is treated as a crazy person and/or a fanatic, those opinions which affect his and his family's life. Jerry tries to convey the message as best as he can, but runs into one roadblock after another. He also chose Jerry as his messenger because of Jerry being a decent person. God came at this time because of his disappointment with the current state of the world. God wants Jerry to be his messenger, much like a present day Moses, to pass along to the human race that "he" has provided all the necessary components of a successful existence, and it is up to the human race to do with those components as they believe fit to reach that success. Based on further circumstances of the interview, Jerry, despite not being a religious person, ultimately does believe that who he meets with, initially only a voice, is indeed God, who eventually does show himself in a physical form to Jerry. Believing it a gag from his friend Artie Coogan, Jerry decides to go to the interview based on circumstances which compel him to do so. But his generally uneventful life takes a turn when he receives a hand delivered note in the mail to attend an interview with God. He's always trying to do his best at his job.
Mild-mannered Jerry Landers is a hard working Assistant Manager at a Food World supermarket outlet.
Married to Bobbie Landers with two pre-teen children, Adam and Becky, living in Tarzana, California.
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