Angel in the Family (2004) (TV)

User Rating:

6.1/10   

Director:

Georg Stanford Brown

Writer (WGA):

Duane Poole (written by)

Release Date:

18 December 2004 (USA)

Genre:

Drama

Tagline:

A story everyone can relate to about a miracle everyone wishes for. Get ready to believe the impossible.

Plot:

An ailing widowed father and his two estranged daughters experience a miracle when their late matriarch returns to spend Christmas with them.

Plot Keywords:

Christmas | Miracle | Sisters | Love | Father Daughter Relationship

Cast

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

Also Known As:

Home for Christmas (USA) (working title)

Runtime:

120 min (including commercials) | USA:88 min (DVD)

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Filming Locations:

Fawnskin, California, USA

Company:

Larry Levinson Productions

Trivia:

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.

Very warming movie with excellent values

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.