Release calendarTop 250 moviesMost popular moviesBrowse movies by genreTop box officeShowtimes & ticketsMovie newsIndia movie spotlight
    What's on TV & streamingTop 250 TV showsMost popular TV showsBrowse TV shows by genreTV news
    What to watchLatest trailersIMDb OriginalsIMDb PicksIMDb SpotlightFamily entertainment guideIMDb Podcasts
    OscarsEmmysToronto Int'l Film FestivalHispanic Heritage MonthIMDb Stars to WatchSTARmeter AwardsAwards CentralFestival CentralAll events
    Born todayMost popular celebsCelebrity news
    Help centerContributor zonePolls
For industry professionals
  • Language
  • Fully supported
  • English (United States)
    Partially supported
  • Français (Canada)
  • Français (France)
  • Deutsch (Deutschland)
  • हिंदी (भारत)
  • Italiano (Italia)
  • Português (Brasil)
  • Español (España)
  • Español (México)
Watchlist
Sign in
  • Fully supported
  • English (United States)
    Partially supported
  • Français (Canada)
  • Français (France)
  • Deutsch (Deutschland)
  • हिंदी (भारत)
  • Italiano (Italia)
  • Português (Brasil)
  • Español (España)
  • Español (México)
Use app
Back
  • Cast & crew
  • User reviews
  • Trivia
  • FAQ
IMDbPro
Harry Dean Stanton, Mary Steenburgen, and Elisabeth Harnois in One Magic Christmas (1985)

Elisabeth Harnois: Abbie Grainger

One Magic Christmas

Elisabeth Harnois credited as playing...

Abbie Grainger

Photos13

View Poster
View Poster
View Poster
View Poster
View Poster
View Poster
View Poster
View Poster
View Poster
View Poster
View Poster
View Poster
+ 1
View Poster

Quotes6

  • Abbie Grainger: My brother's never going to believe this.
  • Gideon: Can you keep a secret?
  • Abbie Grainger: Yeah.
  • Gideon: Well, uh, I'm an angel. A Christmas angel.
  • Abbie Grainger: Oh, no, you're not, 'cause my dad told me you can't see angels. They're invisible.
  • Gideon: Well, they're invisible sometimes, but sometimes they have to show up.
  • Abbie Grainger: So, what's your name then?
  • Gideon: Gideon.
  • Abbie Grainger: Gideon? Was you a good person that died?
  • Gideon: Good person? Well, I was a cow hand... out, out west. And one Christmas, a long, long time ago, I was riding along the Snake River, and I heard this little... kid, uh, yelling to somebody, and, uh, so I jumped into the river to save him. Well, I saved him, all right, but I got myself drowned. 'Cause I didn't know how to swim. And, um, after that they, they made me a Christmas angel.
  • Abbie Grainger: What do Christmas angels do?
  • Gideon: Well, my job is to, every Christmas, have to help one person, that's feeling down, to get into the Christmas spirit.
  • Abbie Grainger: One person?
  • Gideon: Yeah.
  • Abbie Grainger: Could it be my mom? Could you make my mom like Christmas better, Gideon?
  • Gideon: Yeah. I think so, if you'll help me.
  • Abbie Grainger: Okay.
  • Abbie Grainger: Gideon can make it so Dad's not dead any more!
  • Ginny Hanks Grainger: [to Cal] Don't get jelly on your jacket.
  • Cal Grainger: Abbie got jelly on her jacket.
  • Abbie Grainger: I did not, jelly face.
  • Cal Grainger: One of these days Abbie, to the moon!
  • [Santa's sleigh has just landed on the roof]
  • Cal Grainger: Santa Claus?
  • Abbie Grainger: [nods] Santa Claus.
  • Cal Grainger: Santa Claus is real? No way! He can't be.
  • Abbie Grainger: But he is. And don't ever forget, I told you so, Cal.
  • Santa Claus: What was your mother's name when she was little?
  • Abbie Grainger: Ginny.
  • Santa Claus: I mean her last name.
  • Abbie Grainger: Oh, Hanks.
  • Santa Claus: O'Hanks...? Oh, 'Hanks'.

More from this title

More to explore

Recently viewed

Please enable browser cookies to use this feature. Learn more.
Get the IMDb App
Sign in for more accessSign in for more access
Follow IMDb on social
Get the IMDb App
For Android and iOS
Get the IMDb App
  • Help
  • Site Index
  • IMDbPro
  • Box Office Mojo
  • License IMDb Data
  • Press Room
  • Advertising
  • Jobs
  • Conditions of Use
  • Privacy Policy
  • Your Ads Privacy Choices
IMDb, an Amazon company

© 1990-2025 by IMDb.com, Inc.