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Summary: Best Christmas Movie
Review: I have to watch this movie every Christmas. I think it's better
than "It's A Wonderful Life". Christmas is too commerialized.
This movie helps you to remember what is most important to you.
You need a box of kleenex since it is a tear jerker!!!!
I had taped this movie from t.v. on a VHS tape. It wasn't a good
copy. I was happy when I found it at Amazon and bought it.
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Summary: The Best!
Review: This is the best movie other than It's a Wonderful Life and Miracle on 34th Street to watch around Christmas. I bought it for my father for Christmas. He loves it. I could not find it in any local stores only the internet. I trust Amazon and its price.
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Summary: A Good Message on One Front
Review: One of those depressing Christmas flicks with a happy ending, this truly family movie has a good message about remembering what is really important in life. The main character, Ginny, is caught up in her her own problems and worries. She has lost her Christmas spirit and has forgotten how important her loved ones are to her. On a cautionary note, this film is different from other movies such as "It's a Wonderful Life" and "The Preacher's Wife" in that the angel seems to be a representative of Santa Claus, setting up good 'ol St. Nick to be a God-like figure. When tragedy strikes the family (not too much detail here so as not to spoil the movie if you haven't seen it yet) the angel takes Ginny's young daughter to Santa Claus. He tells her he can't solve her problem, but that her mother has the power to do it herself. The turning point in the movie left me wondering how it exactly happened, but it is a movie with a supernatural theme so this is part of the charm. Good acting by all the cast. A movie that the whole family can enjoy.
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Summary: One Magic Christmas
Review: My children and I were brand new in town and went to see One Magic Christmas years ago when it was showing in the theater. It has become a Christmas Eve tradition! My oldest is 22 and living on his own...the DVD version was one of his gifts this year. My 16 year old asked yesterday if we had plans for Christmas Eve. When I mentioned that we would be visiting friends, he said "Before or after One Magic Christmas" Wonderful movie that really puts things in perspective.
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Summary: WARNING: Should be talked about with PARENTS
Review: Folks, in itself this is a good film. BUT, I caution parents to take time with their young ones and affirm the STRANGER DANGER RULE. In the scene, where a six year old daughter seeks to help her mother find "magic" ; she is lured out to a strange man wearing a long coat. In this story, he's an angel. I wish this film was rated for that purpose. I wish the angel flew around or something magical. No such luck. There are a lot of predatory perps out there just looking to cash in on this "angel" suggestion. Shortly after this film came out, I was advised as a pre-school aid to instruct our parents about hazard in this film.
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Summary: Wonderful!
Review: This is absolutely one of the most wonderful Christmas movies I have ever seen, and I watched it in April with my 4 year old niece. I have never been a huge fan of Mary Steenburgen--her personality always comes across as weak and spineless, and she has this soft-spoken, almost whiny voice that reinforces that image (would love to see her play some hard, forceful roles, as I have a feeling it's in her somewhere). However, in this movie, she was pefect. She plays a woman overwhelmed by life in general who has lost her ability to love and appreciate all the little things that make life "magical" and "wonderful" and "inspiring." Her six year old daughter has not lost this ability--she restores the "magic" to her mother through an encounter with an angel and with Santa Claus and a series of other spectacular events. This movie not only leaves you feeling good, it makes you appreciate all the ordinary everyday things that we have in life and often take for granted.
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Summary: A Holiday Classic
Review: This is a wonderful film that has become a part of our Christmas tradition. It is appropriate and heart-warming for all age groups. If your Christmas Spirit could use a nudge, if you'd like to be reminded of things greater than us all, or if you simply want to enjoy a splendid holiday film, One Magic Christmas will touch your heart.
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Summary: A slice of fantasy wrapped in reality.
Review: Arguably the most depressing Christmas movie ever made....yet its realism and honesty only make it that much more powerful and heart-warming. The ending is worthy of many tissues, and it is not a typical manipulative Christmas movie; this one earns its tears. Mary Steenburgen is excellent in the lead role. Her speech to her children about their father is one of the most powerful scenes Ms. Steenburgen has ever performed in. And who knew Harry Dean Stanton could play an angel? A case of miscasting that worked wonderfully.
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Summary: A Rare Christmas Find!
Review: Having given up on modern day movie makers EVER conveying more than "getting" at Christmas as a theme, I was so awestruck when I stumbled on this movie on TV several years ago. Since then, I have scoured the TV guide for it to come on again-- usually it does, middle of the night'ish. Regardless, it is as great a treasure as the Alistair Sim's version of A Christmas Carol. And the shining star is Harry Dean. What an unlikely hero-angel. BUY this video and keep it. It is consummately worthy of adding to any Christmas film collection.
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Summary: One of the best Christmas stories EVER!
Review: I loved this movie. It's easy to understand for the whole family. I was kept on the edge of my seat when I thought the tragedy was for real. This has become one of the movies we watch to get us in the Christmas Spirit!
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