Papa's Angels Movie Review 2000

Sappy Christmas drama set in the 1930s. The Jenkins family, headed by gruff furniture maker Grins (Bakula), live a hard-but-happy life in the Appalachia mountains, with mom Sharon (Nixon) raising their four kids. Then Sharon is diagnosed with tuberculosis and is sent to a sanatorium. But Grins builds a glass room onto the house so she can see the children without infecting them, and brings her home to die. After her death, Grins takes to the moonshine and the kids are left to fend for themselves--he doesn't even want to celebrate Christmas! Based on the book by Collin Wilcox Paxton and Gary Carden.

Distribution

Paramount Home Video, 5555 Melrose Ave., 5555 Melrose Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90038, Phone: (323)956-5000, URL: http://www.paramount.com, Remarks: Does not handle retail queries from consumers; contact your local video distributor.

Available on VHS
Running time 95 minutes.

Cast and Crew

Genres

Period Piece: 1930s, Family Ties, Death & the Afterlife, Christmas

Screenplay

Bill Cain

Cast

Scott Bakula, Cynthia Nixon, Eva Marie Saint, Kimberly Warnat, Brandon James Olson, Jenny Lynn Hutcheson, Lachlan Murdoch, Kirsten Bishopric

Director

Dwight Little