This is the kind of movie that flyover country want Hollywood to make. At its essence it's the story of a woman who fights the demons and failures in her own life by essentially becoming an angel to a family truly in need. She takes on the burdens of this family to avoid dealing with her own life and in the process is transformed through these acts of pure selfless kindness.
Hillary Swank puts on an Oscar worthy performance as Sharon Stevens, our ordinary angel. She slows us all sides of this character, both highs and lows. This is a top actress at the top of her game and she delivers.
Alan Richson, of Reacher fame, plays the family's father Ed Schmitt. Just based on the physical size of RIchson, I thought this would be a stretch, but not at all. Richson delivers an amazing performance, filled with nuance and emotion. He has an amazing way of drawing you into his character and feeling his desperation and urgency.
All the supporting characters add to the sense of community and love the film delivers in bunches. This kind of flyover country optimism is frowned upon by professional film critics who are mostly cynical elitists who enjoy watching perversion and destruction.
So ignore the useless critics and go see this movie. It's so worth your time and money and you'll leave the theater feeling better for it.
Not a Emmy award winning film by any stretch but was really well done for telling such a wonderful uplifting true story. The casting was great. Could have had a bit more of a build up in the beginning and character meet and greet but all in all the plot development was phenomenal and the they did a great job enhancing the important/most important parts. This story follows a family in a small KY town who just lost the mother to illness and now the 5 year old is dying and under a mountain of debt. This story really makes you re-think faith and people as despite all the obstacles they have to over come to save this girl the small town rises up to help her.
Excellent acting from the entire cast & a real tearjerker in places! (Regal Mystery Movie early release)
As the title goes, the story is also pretty ordinary for this type of "based on true events" kind of story. But is still for sure touching and acting is good.
Just saw this as part of the :pound_symbol:RegalMysteryMovie, a beautiful heartwarming story of the redemption of two lost people and the little girl in their lives.
Do yourself a favor and watch this show
“'Cause I'm here. 'Cause I can. Because nobody did it for me.”
What that woman has done is wonderful and she really is a miracle. The communities where such people still exist are very lucky indeed. By the way, I like Alan Ritchson more and more with every production he does. Look how far he's come from the BMS.
Oh how I missed real American melodramas! Only Hollywood dramas could make big boy cry like a baby. There's some magic behind it I swear! Simple and generic in it's core it ends up one of the most emotional it past years.
The literal first joke made in this film is how a girl wants to name her
younger newborn sister "Yoda"
Then the opening credits started and revealed the older sister was played by
a girl named "Skywalker," and it all started coming together.
It's a movie for your mom, nothing more, nothing less; you can skip it.
looking forward to this
based on true story and the trailer is looking great!
Shout by Saint PaulyBlockedParent2024-03-01T05:01:20Z
A neo-horror flick about how the criminally aggressive US health care system is hell bent on crushing the working class out of existence after stealing all their money, and an evil God that will do everything in his power to prevent you from saving your daughter's life on your own unless you get on your knees and beg. Scary shit.