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God's New Plan (1999) -- Weepy fact-based story about a woman facing her impending death and forced to let her baby's nurse become an integral part of her family's life to aid the future care of the child and her husband.

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16 February 1999 (USA) more
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Weepy fact-based story about a woman facing her impending death and forced to let her baby's nurse become an integral part of her family's life to aid the future care of the child and her husband. | add synopsis
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Cast

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Katey Sagal ... Ellen Young

Annabeth Gish ... Claire Hutton
Tom Irwin ... Brian Young
Brenda Bazinet ... Sandy Russo

Alison Pill ... Samantha Hutton

Katie Boland ... Lindsay Hutton
Roger Dunn ... Bill Young
Tedde Moore ... Kate Young

Kim Roberts ... Pearl Dunn
Michael Rhoades ... Dr. Allen

Jonathan Whittaker ... Dr. Gordon
Kaitlyn Viney ... Emily (2 to 3 years old)
Kirsten Viney ... Emily (2 to 3 years old)
Nola Augustson ... Dr. Weinburg
James Downing ... Dr. Logan
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Also Known As:
No Greater Love (USA) (working title)
No Higher Love (UK)
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120 min
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Tough material, well handled, 5 June 2009
8/10
Author: Nozz from Israel

This is a movie that doesn't fool around. It treats one major concern; and other matters that, in real life, would normally occupy the characters from time to time are shunted aside. Annabeth Gish is a single mother of two working twelve-hour days as a nurse, but it seems that luckily her children are angelic, it's seldom evident that she has more than one patient to worry about, and somehow she can regularly find time to spare on her day off. Tom Irwin is rather a cipher as the ideal husband, whose parents are the ideal in-laws. I'm not even sure what he does for a living. (Does he run a bookstore? Well, it doesn't matter.) The dialogue goes straight to the point-- so much so, I'd say, that the actors and director deserve considerable credit for making it seem realistically conversational as they put it across. But they do put it across, and the movie grips you despite the sketchiness of almost all the characters. Annabeth Gish is always magnetic, and Katy Sagal courageously submits to an outward deglamorization to make her character all the more noble.

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