My wife and I watched this movie at home, we found it on Amazon streaming movies. It is faith-based, as such some viewers will either avoid it or criticize it for that but we found it to be a very worthwhile and pleasant movie with good messages about family and friends.
Very young actress Rachel Eggleston plays Hallie, just starting the 2nd grade. Her mother was a teacher and, while we don't learn much about her, she apparently died over some weeks or months because she was able to write letters to individual family members to be discovered after her death.
Dad is a working man, a dentist, who tries to juggle everything, including laundry and food preparation but he isn't very good at it. Young Hallie seems wise beyond her years, at the same time unwise about the ways of the world, so when her new friend at school has a dental problem that Hallie finds out will cost $92 she sets about raising the money. Some of her methods, like having a yard sale for all the "junk" in the garage, cause new problems. But Hallie always is operating from a good heart and the desire to help others.
The production values and the acting in general aren't up to the standard of big budget movies, but overall it is a satisfying movie and young Eggleston is really a fine young actress, very believable in all her scenes.
Very young actress Rachel Eggleston plays Hallie, just starting the 2nd grade. Her mother was a teacher and, while we don't learn much about her, she apparently died over some weeks or months because she was able to write letters to individual family members to be discovered after her death.
Dad is a working man, a dentist, who tries to juggle everything, including laundry and food preparation but he isn't very good at it. Young Hallie seems wise beyond her years, at the same time unwise about the ways of the world, so when her new friend at school has a dental problem that Hallie finds out will cost $92 she sets about raising the money. Some of her methods, like having a yard sale for all the "junk" in the garage, cause new problems. But Hallie always is operating from a good heart and the desire to help others.
The production values and the acting in general aren't up to the standard of big budget movies, but overall it is a satisfying movie and young Eggleston is really a fine young actress, very believable in all her scenes.
