TV Movie: Family Plan

When the Tea Party was over we decided to watch a Hallmark Movie called Family Plan which is vintage 1995.  Another feel good good movie!  We enjoyed the movie and then promptly hit the hay!  Another eighteen holes await us tomorrow!

Summary: After her company was taken over, Charlie Mackenzie has the right profile to get her old executive job back, except that her new boss Ed(ward) Walcott insists on being a ‘family company’, so when he thinks she’s wearing a wedding ring (which just got stuck when she tried it on) she dares not tell him the truth. When she has to invite that boss and his wife, she hires actor Buck Maddockx to pretend being her husband Frank, the father of her (actually the friend who lend her a fine house) daughter Nicole, without any rehearsal.

TV Movie: Meet My Mom

We stayed home in case our daughter wanted to come over but after six we decided to watch a Hallmark movie… They are just great!  We saw “Meet My Mom” .  This is another great movie from Hallmark about a lonely soldier to meets up with a little boy and his mother.  The soldier comes back from Bosnia to assist the little boy with baseball and soon falls in love with the mom.  A real feel good movie!

Movie Day With Julia Roberts

OK, we admit that Old Ranch was closed because they had to re-stripe the parking lots.  We went to see Dr. Drake, then had a fantastic Himilayian lunch near the beach.  Afterwards we went to Bella Terra to see “Eat Pray Love“.

Liz Gilbert (Roberts) had everything a modern woman is supposed to dream of having – a husband, a house, a successful career – yet like so many others, she found herself lost, confused, and searching for what she really wanted in life. Newly divorced and at a crossroads, Gilbert steps out of her comfort zone, risking everything to change her life, embarking on a journey around the world that becomes a quest for self-discovery. In her travels, she discovers the true pleasure of nourishment by eating in Italy; the power of prayer in India, and, finally and unexpectedly, the inner peace and balance of true love in Bali.

Movies: Nanny McPhee Returns

Nanny McPhee arrives to help a harried young mother who is trying to run the family farm while her husband is away at war, though she uses her magic to teach the woman’s children and their two spoiled cousins five new lessons.

Great movie, very funny while being quite moving!

Super movie... Highlt recommended

TV Movie: Come Dance At My Wedding

Wonderful film about a woman who is to be married only to discover that she has a father.

John Schneider is absolutely wonderful as her dad. Schneider proves in this film that he is quite a hoofer.

You can’t imagine why his marriage failed until the very end when it’s revealed why. How sad the reasoning was.

When her father enters her life, naturally, he enters her personal problems as well. She has the opportunity to sell her dance studio to a developer and use the money to become a psychologist. Her fiancé wants her to do this and after a wonderful meeting with his father-in-law to be, it becomes possible that the 2 men might very well lock horns over this thorny issue. Why would the mother, now deceased, leave Schneider’s name on the deed? It is all tied together quite well.

Old Movie: George Washington Slept Here

Great old movie circa 1942 was George Washington Selp Here. New Yorkers Bill and Connie Fuller have to move from their apartment. Without Bill’s knowledge, Connie purchases a dilapidated old farmhouse in Pennsylvania, where George Washington was supposed to have actually slept during the American Revolution. Much of the humor comes from the couple’s many problems they encounter while trying to fix up the place. It starred Jack Benny, Anne Sheridan, Charles Colburn, Percy McBride and Hattie McDaniel!

Laugh and giggle time!

Wednesday Was Busy; Chores, Movie, Elks, And Dancing!

We did our chores and then headed for the Toyota dealer to pick up the baby!  On the way we decided to see “Inception” at Bella Terra, great movie!

Summary: In a world where technology exists to enter the human mind through dream invasion, a highly skilled thief is given a final chance at redemption which involves executing his toughest job to date, Inception.

After returning home, we headed for the Santa Ana Elks to support Roy and Ed for membership!  That took almost three hours!  So then we went VFR to the dance hall at Cypress and we closed the place down!

Congrats Roy and Ed!

Remember: The smallest good deed is better than the grandest good intention.    — Duguet

Despicable Me In 3D

We went to see Despicable Me with Vicky an Del. When a criminal mastermind uses a trio of orphan girls as pawns for a grand scheme, he finds himself profoundly changed by the growing love between them.  We all got a hoot of out the movie.

Funny funny funny

TV Movie: Mending Fences

Another great movie by Hallmark! Mending Fences has everything!After failing to get the anchor woman position she was promised solely as wife (now ex) of a studio boss, Kelly Faraday needs to feel her own roots again. She returns home with daughter Kamilla, to equally stubborn (grand)ma Ruth Hanson. Ruth makes them commit to try keep the ranch in the family at a time of drought, when neighbors sell to a company that wants to build a casino. Kelly’s ex Walt Mitchell, now Ruth’s foreman, rekindles her love-life, while Kamilla gets on with local rancher Hank Bentley’s son Chuck.

TV Movie: Plainsong

Plainsong is an excellent movie. Hallmark Hall of Fame presentation based on the novel by Kent Haruf. Tom Guthrie (Aidan Quinn), a high school history teacher, is faced with raising two young sons after his wife leaves him. Maggie Jones (Rachel Griffiths), a fellow teacher, tries to provide comfort and support. When Victoria Roubideaux (America Ferrera), a 17-year old student at their school, becomes pregnant, her mother forces her out of their home. Victoria goes to Maggie for help. Maggie befriends the teenager and eventually arranges for her to live outside their small town in the ranch house of the two bachelor McPheron brothers, Raymond (Geoffrey Lewis) and Harold (William Andrews). They take her in and help her prepare for the birth of her baby. Their lives become interlocked with other seeming misfits in their small Colorado town. Gradually, they all grow to need and depend on each other, and ultimately, they build more than a community; they create a family.

Another heart warming movie where again people from different background can be wonderful to one another

TV Movie: On The Beach

Sue had never seen On The Beach and Paul lived through it (I was in High School).  It was spooky! Summary: In the aftermath of an atomic war, much of humanity has been destroyed. Only Australia remains, but time is short as the winds will inevitably spread nuclear fallout and everyone knows they have only a few months to live.

Among those coming to terms with the inevitable is a U.S. navy officer, Cmdr. Dwight Towers, whose submarine and crew were at sea when the holocaust occurred; Moira Davidson, a free-spirit who develops a close attachment to Towers; Julian Osborne, whose dream is to win the Australian Grand Prix automobile race; and Lt. Cmdr. Peter Holmes, who is as concerned about his wife and newborn child’s future as his own. All cope with the inevitability of death in their own way, but also with love, dignity and affection.

It was seen as a possibiity in 1959!

TV Movie: Valley Of Light

We were a bit tired today as we had lunch with friends and then made six quarts of tomato sauce from our garden.  We decided not to go dancing but to rest and watch some saved-up Hallmark movies.  The first one was “Valley Of Light“.

Coming home from Europe after WWII was not easy

Summary: Made-for-TV drama about Noah (Chris Klein), a homeless World War II veteran who settles in a small North Carolina town and develops relationships with Eleanor (Gretchen Mol), a lonely war widow and a mute boy (Zach Mills) whose father has abandoned him. Noah, is a fantastic fisherman and aims to make a living at catfishing. Eleanor allows Noah to stay on her small farm in the “fishing shack”. They are drawn to each other through mutual loneliness and a longing to find purpose in life and create a new future for themselves.

Noah is haunted by his experiences in the war and by his quest to catch a mythically hugh bass that has become a metaphore for his inner struggle to find himself. He once caught the gigantic bass, but released it as he could not bring himself to kill it. He finds himself falling in love with Eleanor, but cannot persue the relationship until his inner turmoil is resolved. In the end, the mythical bass remains free and Noah and Eleanor find themselves and each other.

TV Movie: Jack’s Family Adventure

It was not TOO late so we stayed with another Hallmark called “Jack’s Family Adventure“.

On the surface, the Vickerys appear to be the perfect all-American Family. Underneath it all, however, the family is separated by modern-day gadgets and hectic schedules. When Jack’s uncle dies leaving him his mountain ranch, Jack realizes they could all use time away together. At first the family struggles to adapt to the outdated cabin, but when a neighbor needs their help, they learn that as a family they can accomplish anything.

City dwellers on horses...

TV Movie: Magic Of Ordinary Days

After getting back from dancing at the Newport Harbor Elks, we came home to watch a movie and visit the babies.

Set in 1944 Colorado, The Magic of Ordinary Days is the story of a young woman, Livy Dune (played by Keri Russell), who became pregnant before marriage. Her father, Rev. Dunne, decided to deal with the situation, by arranging a marriage to a shy farmer through another preacher. The groom, Ray Singleton (played by Skeet Ulrich), lives on a remote farm and is very different than Livy. Ray focuses on what is close to him: his family, his land, today. Livy thinks on a much grander scale: the world, ancient civilizations, far away places.

Ray’s farm utilizes the help of Japanese Americans from a nearby Japanese American internment camp to help work the farm. Livy befriends two well-educated Japanese American women who were working the farm, Flora and Rose (Tania Gunadi and Gwendoline Yeo). She finds comfort and familiarity in their friendship. Livy is polite and civil to her new husband and his sister Martha (Mare Winningham), but she harbors feelings for the father of the baby, a World War II soldier, and feelings of guilt for the pregnancy. Ray, however, is caring, patient, and supportive of Livy, but the fact that she does not want him hurts him deeply. Slowly over time, the two come to understand and love each other, and appreciate that though they are different, neither is better or worse than the other.

Great Hallmark moviie

TV Movies: The Devil And Miss Jones

Paul played golf for the first time in two+ weeks and it was NOT memorable!  Afterwards, we visited with Bunnaford for drinks and then headed for home.  Jeanette joined us for dinner and we settled in with the puppies for an old time movie, Devil and Miss Jones.  The stars were Jean Arthur, Bob Cummings, Spring Byington,  Charles Colburn, and many more!

Super movie and a lot of fun to watch!

Summary: Tycoon John P. Merrick is startled to see an effigy of himself hanging on the front page of the New York Times, courtesy of union organizers at Neeley’s Department Store, which Merrick didn’t even know he owned. On a sudden impulse, he goes undercover there as a shoe salesman. Soon he’s so involved in the lives of his fellow employees (especially one young couple and a delightful single woman his own age) as to forget his original purpose. But his two lives are on a collision course…