12 Days of Holiday Movies | Christmas Eve

by | Dec 27, 2016 | Writing

Movie #12 – Christmas Eve   The steadfast belief in miracles in the face of doubts and the facts is sublimely appealing. Loretta Young carries it off with mature charm as a generous New Yorker backed by unlimited money, but limited time, and a heart that stays...

12 Days of Holiday Movies | One Special Night

by | Dec 26, 2016 | Writing

Movie # 11- One Special Night is a 2002 made for TV movie offering a realistic romance between a widowed pediatrician now married to her career, and a construction company owner coping with the gradual loss of his wife to Alzheimer’s. Stranded in a cabin in the woods...

12 Days of Holiday Movies | The Polar Express

by | Dec 25, 2016 | Writing

Movie #10 – The Polar Express   The magic of one train ride. Imagine being encapsulated in that warm safe train car, in your pi’s, with cocoa in hand knowing you are heading for a magical land where thousands of other kindred souls will be gathered. Who...

12 Days of Holiday Movies – The Bishop’s Wife

by | Dec 21, 2016 | Writing

Movie #6 – The Bishop’s Wife.    I have the 1947 version and pretty much know all the dialogue. The characters are more than appropriate symbols for the frailties of people being people. Dudley the angel;  Julia the good wife; Henry, the bishop losing his way,...