Ordinary Angels

Name: Ordinary Angels
Genre: Drama
Released: February 23, 2024
Duration: 118 min
Rating: 57
Cast: Alan Ritchson, Amy Acker, Dempsey Bryk, Drew Powell, Emily Mitchell

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Lionsgate | Release Date: February 23, 2024 | PG

Starring: Alan Ritchson, Amy Acker, Dempsey Bryk, Drew Powell, Emily Mitchell, Erik Athavale, Hilary Swank, Nancy Sorel, Nancy Travis, Skywalker Hughes, Stephanie Sy, Tamala Jones

Summary: Sharon Steves (Hilary Swank), a fierce but struggling hairdresser in small-town Kentucky, discovers a renewed sense of purpose when she meets Ed Schmitt (Alan Ritchson), a widower working hard to make ends meet for his two daughters. With his youngest daughter waiting for a liver transplant, Sharon sets her mind to helping the family andSharon Steves (Hilary Swank), a fierce but struggling hairdresser in small-town Kentucky, discovers a renewed sense of purpose when she meets Ed Schmitt (Alan Ritchson), a widower working hard to make ends meet for his two daughters. With his youngest daughter waiting for a liver transplant, Sharon sets her mind to helping the family and will move mountains to do it. What unfolds is the inspiring tale of faith, everyday miracles, and ordinary angels. Based on a true story.… Expand

Director: Jon Gunn

Genre(s): Drama

Rating: PG

Runtime: 118 min

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Rex Reed

Feb 27, 2024

Directed by Jon Gunn with no frills but a lot of suspense that comes out of the story naturally, without the need for any manufactured Hollywood thrills, and co-written by actor Meg Tilly and Kelly Fremon Craig, this is one of those rare emotional sagas “based on a true story” that begs to make it to the screen but seems preposterous when it gets there. Read full review

Mick LaSalle

Feb 22, 2024

Ordinary Angels has some of the feeling of an after-school special because it’s a heartwarming movie in which everybody is nice. But it’s more well-made than most. It hooks the audience from the first scene and then builds in tension over the course of its almost two-hour running time. Read full review

Frank Scheck

Feb 20, 2024

Swank makes it work with a canny performance that conveys her character’s inner turbulence, much of it derived from her troubled relationship with her estranged grown son. Read full review

Jen Yamato

Feb 20, 2024

Ordinary Angels, an uplifting drama inspired by the effort to get a sick girl to a transplant hospital amid a massive 1994 Kentucky snowstorm, poses a challenge to cynics: Even if you could resist another spunky, heartstring-tugging Hilary Swank performance in this overstuffed true tale, who among us can deny the sublime beauty of Jack Reacher’s tears? Read full review

Courtney Howard

Feb 20, 2024

Gunn adeptly exercises a necessary modicum of visual dexterity to emphasize character drive. Read full review

Glenn Kenny

Feb 22, 2024

Despite its bona fides, the movies narrative and characterizations practically gorge on clichés. Read full review

Screen Rant Hannah Gearan

Mar 1, 2024

The film refuses to linger in these quieter, well-acted Ritchson scenes, often in favor of a scene with Sharon. Swank is not necessarily bad in the role, but the film works too hard, and to minimal avail, to manipulate us into sympathy for her overbearing personality. Read full review

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