M. Howard

Disappointed, Feb 5 2011

This story is about a working class couple who try to regain custody of their 6 year old boy who was given up for adoption by his mother after she sent the child's father to prison 7 years earlier for abuse. Joey's adoptive parents are determined to keep their son and will stop at nothing in order to do this.

Mira Sorvino, who plays the biological mother, was wonderful in this movie, the saving grace if you will. I rated the movie a 2 because I wouldn't recommend it to a non-christian. In fact by the end of the movie I had such a bad taste in my mouth for the Christian character that I wanted to throw the movie away. Karen Kingsbury, who produced this movie, makes the… Read more

Fluff Pieces, July 20 2010

I watched all four of these movies and found them all to be slow moving. It seems like whoever wrote the scripts pulled mystical ideas from everywhere in order to make the moral at the end of the movie work. I was surprised as Hallmark usually has good movies.

"Angel in the Family" has a dead mother coming back for Christmas in order to put the family back together. There is no real reason for anything that happens in the movie and you are left wondering why things were resolved. "Where There's a Will" has more of a story line and, even though corny, shows a better progression in the plot. "The Long Way Home" is about a senior citizen looking to take charge of his life without… Read more

A Dynamic Presentation, Feb 19 2010

If you want to understand how big God is and that this God desires a relationship with you, then this is the series for you. It is a well done, step by step, walk through on the vastness of the universe and the One who created it. Louie Giglio passionately shows us that our idea of God is too small. At the same time he helps us understand that we are immensely important to our Creator. It is a must see for everyone, young and old.