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6.1/10   100 votes
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Writer (WGA):
Duane Poole (written by)
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Release Date:
18 December 2004 (USA) more
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Tagline:
A story everyone can relate to about a miracle everyone wishes for. Get ready to believe the impossible. more
Plot:
An ailing widowed father and his two estranged daughters experience a miracle when their late matriarch returns to spend Christmas with them. full summary | add synopsis
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Very warming movie with excellent values more (4 total)

Cast

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Meredith Baxter ... Lorraine
Dalton Brooks ... Child in church

David Chisum ... David

Ronny Cox ... Buddy
Warren D. Davis ... Minister

Patrick Day ... The Client

Steve Fox ... Men's Choir Member

Natasha Gregson Wagner ... Beth
Joshua Grenrock ... Howie

Tess Harper ... Mrs. Nelly Tomkins

Tommy Hinkley ... Joe

Dominic Scott Kay ... Frankie

Kristina Krofft ... Assistant
Robert H. Merritt ... Town church goer

Tracey Needham ... Sarah

John Pyper-Ferguson ... Alex

Alex Scarlis ... Keith (as Alexander Scarlis)
James Tumminia ... Doctor
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Also Known As:
Home for Christmas (USA) (working title)
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Runtime:
120 min (including commercials) | USA:88 min (DVD)
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1.33 : 1 more
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Some scenes were filmed at the old Hearld Examiner building in downtown Los Angeles, purported to be haunted. A crew member was walking up the stairs to the 2nd floor and the book in her back pocket was removed and thrown down the stairs - no one was with her at the time. Another crew member reported a door that would open an close by itself on the 4th floor. more

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14 out of 21 people found the following review useful.
Very warming movie with excellent values, 17 September 2005
9/10
Author: JJBustamante from Hawaii

The story basically is about a widower father and his two daughters who often had disputes. The father got really ill near Christmas, so he and his two daughters spent the Christmas in their old family home.

By some miracle, their mother who passed away several years previous suddenly came back to help straighten things out.

I suppose that this is a fantasy that everyone who lost a loved one has, and this movie was a nice exploration of what could happen in such a case.

Aside from that, this movie has excellent moral values and is perfect for the whole family. Subtly but surely, this movie illustrates mainstream Judeo-Christian values. It successfully showed us the problems of addictions, abortion, fornication and obsessions without showing us the ugly side of humanity -- an extremely unusual feat.

Those who do not like being preached to would likewise enjoy this movie, as even though it is a movie of morality, it does not try to indoctrinate or preach.

This is the perfect movie.

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