Note to Readers
Because of my holiday schedule, some upcoming daily posts may be abbreviated and/or prescheduled.My Choice For the Best Cable Christmas Movie This Year
Kristin Chenoweth stars in this Hallmark Hall of Fame production as a choir director, tasked with writing a song for the group's main performance, with a secret buried in her past: she gave birth to a son who she gave up for adoption at a difficult point in her life. Her musically gifted son seeks her out and becomes a member of the choir; his widowed adoptive father develops a romantic interest with the choir director, unaware she is the birth mother. The climax of the movie is the glorious mother-son duet performance of "When Angels Land". I haven't found a clipping yet of that performance but she does a solo performance of the song, which I really like.
Other Hallmark movie songs I love:
- Twas the Night (from "Angels and Ornaments")
This is a movie I liked so much, I licensed the rights via Google. The protagonist has bad luck choosing boyfriends; she works at a music store owned by her former high school classmate, who secretly carries a torch for her. She makes a wish on an ornament made by her maternal grandfather, who was killed in WWII, for her beloved grandmother (Emily). An angel is sent (like Clarence in "It's a Wonderful Life") as a matchmaker: unknown to both at the beginning, her grandfather; the incentive for him is a long-awaited heavenly reunion with his beloved Emily. This song is a fusion of the verses she wrote for her grandmother as a present and her grandfather's unfinished serially-posted composition for Emily.
-- Angel Like You (from "Christmas Magic")
A workaholic event planner gets into a serious auto accident. She wakes up in the spirit world and is sent to help a struggling restaurant owner/widower with a young daughter. He was an aspiring songwriter but that part of him died with his wife. They find themselves falling in love with each other, which can't happen because she's an angel--or so she thinks. As in the last movie, this song plays a part in the movie's climax.
