Tuesday, 28 June 2022

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – BUTTONS, A NEW MUSICAL FILM (2018)

 

Guardian angel Rose (Angela Lansbury) goes to visit an orphan named Emily (Noelle E. Parker) who is sick in the hospital and tells her a story about another guardian angel (Dick Van Dyke).

Who has appeared to Annabelle Kingsley (Alivia Clark), aka Buttons, from time to time following her loving parents’ prayer to God to watch over her when she had scarlet fever as an infant.

When Annabelle is 10, she and her mother learn that her father William Kingsley (Ioan Gruffudd), a ship captain, has been lost at sea, then her newly-impoverished mother Sarah (Julia Burrows) is forced to work in a textile mill and the harsh conditions lead to her death.

So, Annabelle is an orphan and is bullied by the other girls until she escapes.

She finds herself alone, hungry, and cold on Christmas Eve, guided by her guardian angel she decides the only place she can turn to for safety is the church, and finds salvation.

 

Abigail Spencer, Jane Seymour, Roma Downey, Katie McGrath, Robert Picardo, Charles Shaughnessy, Paul Greene and John de Lancie also feature and Kate Winslet and Robert Redford Narrate.

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