The Heart of Christmas debuted this year on GMC, which turns out is the Gospel Music Channel. Surprising that a channel I didn't even know existed is able to afford film production! Anyway, this film is apparently based on a true story, which then was written about in a song and then turned into this movie. It tells the story of a family with a young child who is diagnosed with cancer. The parents take the child away to St. Judes for treatment, where the parents meet other parents of sick kids and the mom starts a blog to keep friends and family informed about what's going on. It's actually a pretty depressing movie where each child seems to go through remission only to then die. The main parents take their son home around Halloween and the entire neighborhood pitches in to turn the street into Christmas so the boy can have one last Christmas. It's a nice story of neighbors and friends pitching in for a family in need but I found it kind of boring, to be honest. And it claimed to star Candace Cameron Bure but she really was only it for about ten minutes as a busy, cranky mom who reads the blog one afternoon and suddenly turns into a nicer, more helpful person. Overall, it was all right but kinda boring. Plus, it's actually really similar to the plot of November Christmas, which I watched last year, and starred a much better cast so it loses points on originality.
Rating: B-
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