Product Details

• Actors: Meredith Baxter, Tracey Needham, Ronny Cox, Natasha Gregson Wagner, Tess Harper
• Directors: Georg Stanford Brown
• Format: Color, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 2
• Rated: Unrated
• Studio: Echo Bridge Home Entertainment
• DVD Release Date: July 22, 2008
• Run Time: 88 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (31 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B001IHJ94W
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #299,817 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Sarah Bishop (Tracey Needham, TV's Jag) and her estranged sister Beth (Natasha Gregson Wagner, High Fidelity) are reunited after their father Buddy (Ronny Cox, Total Recall) suffers a mild stroke. Buddy, who's never accepted the loss of his wife Lorraine (Meredith Baxter, TV's Family Ties), wants only one thing--to return home for Christmas. With sweet memories of a life gone by, Sarah makes an impossible wish that her mother could be there, too. By morning, it is as if a winter prayer has been answered. Bearing a message of hope, healing, and everlasting love, a miracle has arrived...

Includes FREE Music CD!
CHRISTMAS RELAXATION
1. Unto Us Is Born a Son; 2. O' Holy Night; 3. Away in a Manger; 4. The First Noël (a); 5. Hark! The Herald Angels Sing; 6. The First Noël (b); 7. I Saw Three Ships; 8. We Three Kings; 9. The Holly and the Ivy; 10. O' Little Town of Bethlehem

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

48 of 50 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars a rare movie, September 6, 2007

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bookloversfriend (United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Angel in the Family (DVD)

This movie is a find! It manages to deal with real people in a realistic way without resorting to the usual easy gimmick of making the people nasty and hostile. The people here are not perfect, but they are sympathetic.

Also, the relationships in this family are very realistic--again without making anyone a pain or an impossible person. Whoever wrote this had a lot of understanding of the relations between grown siblings and between grown children and their parents.

The film also explores some of the big questions of life and how important "little things" are in those big questions. The mother's admitting that she gave an incomplete version of her recipe to a friend who had admired the dish, and that she had been bothered by that and wants to make it right--this was priceless. Also, her determination to return the library book!

The transitions of the characters are well-developed and believable. They manage to work things out without everyone suddenly becoming angelic creatures without a fault in the world.

If you like human dramas about real but decent people, this is not a film to be missed. There are all too few like it.

29 of 33 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Warm and wonderful Christmas!, December 12, 2006

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C. J. Durbin "Happy Kitty" (Sun Valley, NV) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Angel in the Family (DVD)

This moving incorperates all the elements of a magical, beautiful Christmas! Tracey Neeham (Sarah) is a terrific actress and her character is someone I would like as a friend. At first I thought that Natasha Gregson Wagner was not a very good actress because she was so "dead pan." Then I realized that her character, Beth, is a self-centered, pasionless, joyless person until the "magic" begins. Ronny Cox, Buddy, is one of the best character actors of our time and, of course, Meredith Baxter never disappoints. An enjoyable, heartwarming movie for Christmas or anytime!

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Very Good Movie, January 11, 2009

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J. Mastermaker (NY) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Angel in the Family [Blu-ray] (Blu-ray)

I love this movie it was so good very heart warming. Very good holiday movie.