Review of God Said, 'Ha!'

A wonderful examination of love and loss from actress-comedienne Julia Sweeney, adapting her own one-woman play into an intimate and genuinely touching one-woman film. Sweeney talks about her beloved brother's battle in 1995 with terminal cancer—and her own eventual, almost-simultaneous diagnosis with cervical cancer—without being facetious (nor is she, on the flip side, overtly sentimental or 'angry'). There are no railings against God here; Sweeney is pithy and cogent, amusing in a lightly ironic way, and very appealing (a quality that failed to come across with the material she was given to do while a member of TV's "Saturday Night Live"). While not a big cinematic event, Sweeney's warmth as a speaker coupled with her deeply-felt remembrances have the ability to touch a lot of people. It should be perfect fare for cable-television. *** from ****