Movie #2099 "Color of Rain" (Hallmark)I saw this a while ago but can still remember the sadness, because usually in Hallmark movie one family is hit with grief, but this is two. But then, double the happiness at a the end, right? I remember the guy mumbled a lot, but I just looked him up and I had seen him before in a t.v. series entitled "Alphas" and liked him --- he has a bit of a Irish accent, so maybe downplaying that was what he was doing? also, he probably wanted to show more inward grief in comparison to Lacy Chabert's outward stuff. The kids were okay and helped with making the story line more interesting for me. BUT this is a very sad one for 3/4's of the way through. I'd give it 4.8, though. Very worthwhile watch -- and although a lot of people would say it was unbelievable that two families could get together by the end of a Hallmarkian movie time span, I felt this one made that believable.
"COLOR OF RAIN" 1 hour and 24 mins 2014
After cancer claims Matt Kell's life on Christmas Day 2005, his widow, Gina and two young boys are left to cope with the pain of his loss while their close church community gathers around them for support. Wanting to be close to her kids, Gina starts to volunteer at their elementary school and meets the Spehn children, Jack, Danny and Charlotte. In a gut-wrenching coincidence, just weeks after Matt's death, the Spehn's mom, Cathy, also suddenly succumbs to cancer, leaving her distraught husband, Michael, to care for their three kids on his own. Sensing the hopelessness in Michael she so recently saw in herself, Gina reaches out to Michael and his kids and the two families begin to forge an unlikely friendship and close bond. Over the year that follows, their lives become intertwined as they learn to lean on each other during the at-times insurmountable obstacles, tears and adversity and begin to heal with laughter, compassion and faith. As Gina and Michael realize their newfound friendship is so much more, they struggle against some surprising resistance from their families and community to unite their two grieving families as one and eventually learn to open their hearts to love again.
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