Ordinary Angels (2024)

This one was filmed in Winnipeg, and it shows. The use of natural lighting is the giveaway that it’s from Canada. The amount of snow that the producers had representing a blizzard in 1994 Louisville, Kentucky was a ‘normal’ snowstorm north of the border. Funny, that.

Films like this tend to take liberties in order to enhance the dramatic effect, but the real images shown during the ending credits kind of gave the game away. The final obstacle to overcome happens in the daylight, not at night. That makes quite a bit of difference. Driving (or flying) during a snowstorm at night is harder than during the day, although accidents do happen then, too. But not matter, the story is about a miracle, and it delivers it in spades.

The image of a red blanket flying like an angel beneath the descending helicopter is seen as the personification of Michelle’s mother That’s when Ed Schmitt ‘saw’ who was behind the miracle.

Ordinary Angels? Never.