Product Details

• Actors: Anne Heche, Tate Donovan
• Directors: Dick Lowry
• Producers: Andrew Gottlieb
• Format: Collector's Edition
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Run Time: 110.0 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000COY4RO
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #14,995 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

It's the Christmas season, but Christy Byrne (Tate Donovan) hasn't felt much joy since his wife died. When business brings him and his two children from Nova Scotia to New York City, his all-work attitude causes a fallout. Meanwhile, Catherine O'Meara (Anne Heche) is finding her "Look Up" project for a Manhattan art museum personally challenging. The project urges New Yorkers to look upward and experience the holidays in a new way-a difficult notion for a woman struggling through her third Christmas since losing her husband to cancer. Although their paths cross often, Catherine and Christy remain emotionally isolated until a crisis draws them together and they rediscover faith, hope, and love.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

30 of 32 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Find The Silver Bells And Win The Prize, December 17, 2005

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Brian E. Erland "Rainbow Sphinx" (Brea, CA - USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Silver Bells - Hallmark Hall of Fame Dvd (DVD)

'Silver Bells' is a Hallmark Production made for television movie which is available for purchase only at Hallmark stores.

It's a story about two people who have lost their soul mates by unfortunate deaths and are afraid to try again. Christy Bryne (Tate Donovan) makes the journey from Nova Scotia every year with his two children to sell Christmas trees on the streets of New York. Despite his remakable talent for selling trees to all that pass by he has never been able to sell one to the recluse young blonde who works across the street from his tree stand. As you might guess Christy makes it his goal to sell a tree this year to the unapproachable Catherine (Anne Heche).

Meanwhile his oldest son is ready to move on and leave his old life in Nova Scotia and runs away from his Father to seek a career in photography in New York. Catherine happens to run a photo gallery and encourages the young man to pursue his dream. Between helping the son and fighting off the advances of the father things diffently get complicated and emotions run rampant.

However as you might have guessed by now eventually everything works out when Christy returns the following year and true love is discovered just in time for Christmas!

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars STRUGGLE OF SURVIVAL AFTER LOSS WITH A CHRISTMAS THEME, February 9, 2009

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Harold Wolf "Doc" (Wells, IN United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Silver Bells - Hallmark Hall of Fame Dvd (DVD)

Having a loss of a loved one makes Christmas emotional and a struggle. Suffering with the loss of relationship between parent/child or man/woman is just as great a loss and struggle. Christmas brings the loss back, but sometimes with HOPE. This Hallmark Hall of Fame story, taken from the novel by Lauanne Rice, is such a story of loss and hope, of loss and struggle, of loss and the miracle of recovery. That is also what Christmas is. Christmas is about finding "Silver Bells" in life when life's path is difficult.

It doesn't take a Christmas tree farmer to discover hope. Can Christy? Christy Byrne is the macho but lovable tree farmer with two children, trying to hide his struggle after losing his wife by her death. Along the journey into the street of New York City, to sell his trees, with the help of his son and daughter, they all encounter others, each with a need, a loss, a relationship needing hope.

It is a love story, made delightful through the written words of best-selling author Luanne Rice. It is also a hope story made perfect by Hallmark, who never fails to product "the very best."

My wife and I LOVE this movie. It is one for us to watch each year. We relate to it passionately because we have each lost a spouse, and survived, and found the hope, and eventual recovery, including our marriage to each other. We have found our own "Silver Bells" in our silver years.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Christmas drama, April 8, 2008

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Harold A. Fretheim (Juanita, WA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Silver Bells - Hallmark Hall of Fame Dvd (DVD)

I do not own this own but I remember watching it on TV. This is not a light frothy Christmas romance. It has a romantic element but in fact is deeper- a serious look at both loss and love. It has some uneven moments but was well acted and on the whole well done.