Magazine articles about its making have outlined the problems: multiple script changes, wholesale reshooting. The tinkering appears to have eroded the film's basic core. It is now a series of audience-pleasing turns, with little sense of unity.

Redford and company have put a quirky twist on the material, investing it with a quasi-mystical aspect as well as some raw comedy.

Fairly choked with good intentions, whimsy, touches of fantasy, and cardboard liberal stereotypes.

“Milagro” is a wonderful film with a nice message that is too overpowering to the story