The Shack (2017) (Movie)

format_quote Missy Phillips: Is the Great Spirit another name for Papa?
Mack Phillips: He is a spirit. And he is great. Right?
Missy Phillips: Then how come he's so mean?
Mack Phillips: Why'd you say that?
Missy Phillips: The Great Spirit made the princess jump off the cliff and made Jesus die on the cross. Don't you think that's mean?

format_quote Papa: When you focus on pain, you lose sight of me.

format_quote Papa: Pain robs you of joy, and the capacity to love.

stars  This would make the second time that Sam Worthington and Radha Mitchell would have worked together. They started in "Rogue" back in 2007.

stars  In the scene near the beginning out by the car when Mac and the kids are leaving on the camping trip, there is a glimpse of the front yard with a plain hedge and no other plants. In the scene near the end when the family is leaving on another camping trip, the front yard has a sea of flowers growing around the hedge, reminiscent of the garden at the shack.

stars  The large, roadside duck-sign marking the entrance to the Oregon state park is the actual entrance sign for Cultus Lake Provincial Park in British Columbia, Canada with the state park name superimposed.