Unlikely Angel

TV Movie
1996
Not Rated
1h 35m

IMDb RATING

6.3/10

1.3K

YOUR RATING

Comedy Fantasy

Dolly Parton portrays a country-music performer who meets an untimely demise, but cannot enter heaven until she performs a good deed back on Earth: to reunite a workaholic widower with his c... Read allDolly Parton portrays a country-music performer who meets an untimely demise, but cannot enter heaven until she performs a good deed back on Earth: to reunite a workaholic widower with his children for Christmas.Dolly Parton portrays a country-music performer who meets an untimely demise, but cannot enter heaven until she performs a good deed back on Earth: to reunite a workaholic widower with his children for Christmas.

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IMDb RATING

6.3/10

1.3K

YOUR RATING

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Trivia
At the beginning of the movie, the sign that reads "Ruby Diamond Appearing Nightly" is missing the letters "U" and "L". This is a reference to the first and last letters of the movie's title.

Goofs
When Ruby walks into the bingo hall where Peter is calling out the numbers, she sits down at the table and plays a card, then Peter calls out "I-60." This cannot happen as the column "I" only has numbers 16-30.

Connections
References The Sound of Music (1965)

Soundtracks
Unlikely Angel
Written and Performed by Dolly Parton

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Review

Featured review

9/10

cute and funny

I liked the movie. Predictable but entertaining. I'll have to admit, I'm a Dolly fan! She always plays good parts. Even in Nine to Five, she meant well in everything she did. The actors did an OK job of portraying their characters. CLEAN except for a few shots of Dolly. Language is fairly clean except for the word dam-it. Unfortunately it is all too true that the real world today focuses on the job, career, kids are left to fend for themselves, parents don't know how to be parents, etc. I would watch it again. Sometimes I think my grown up kids could learn some things, even from a simple movie like this one.

Better than some of the trash out there these days.