One Magic Christmas

One Magic Christmas is a 1985 holiday film from Walt Disney Pictures directed by Phillip Borsos and starring Mary Steenburgen and Harry Dean Stanton. Miracles do happen! (taglines)

Abbie Grainger

 * Gideon can make it so Dad's not dead anymore!


 * My brother's never going to believe this.

Dialogue

 * Ginny: [to Cal] Don't get jelly on your jacket.
 * Cal: Abbie got jelly on her jacket.
 * Abbie: I did not, jelly face.
 * Cal: One of these days, Abbie to the moon!


 * Gideon: Can you keep a secret?
 * Abbie: Yeah.
 * Gideon: Well, uh. I'm an angel. A Christmas angel.
 * Abbie: Oh, no you're not. Because my dad told me you can't see angels. They're invisible.
 * Gideon: Well, they're invisible sometimes, but sometimes they have to show up.
 * Abbie: So, what's your name then.
 * Gideon: Gideon.
 * Abbie: Gideon? Was you a good person that died?
 * Gideon: Good person? Well, I was a cow hand... out, out west. And one Christmas, a long, long time ago, I was riding along the Snake River, and I heard this little... kid, uh, yelling to somebody, and uh, so I jumped into the river to save him. Well, I saved him. All right, but I got myself drowned. Because I didn't know how to swim. And um, after that they, they made me a Christmas angel.
 * Abbie: What do Christmas angels do?
 * Gideon: Well, my job is to, every Christmas, have to help one person, that's feeling down, to get into Christmas spirit.
 * Abbie: One person?
 * Gideon: Yeah.
 * Abbie: Could it be my mom? Could you make my mom like Christmas better, Gideon?
 * Gideon: Yeah. I think so, if you'll help me.
 * Abbie: Okay.

Taglines

 * Miracles do happen!
 * A magical film like this only happens once in a lifetime. Now everyone will believe in Santa Claus.

Cast

 * Mary Steenburgen - Ginny Grainger
 * Gary Basaraba -Jack Grainger
 * Harry Dean Stanton - Gideon
 * Arthur Hill - Caleb Grainger
 * Robbie Magwood - Cal Grainger
 * Elisabeth Harnois - Abbie Grainger
 * Michelle Meyrink - Betty
 * Elias Koteas - Eddie
 * Wayne Robson - Harry Dickens
 * Jan Rubes....Santa Claus
 * Sarah Polley- Molly Monaghan
 * Graham Jarvis - Frank Crump
 * Timothy Webber - Herbie Conklin
 * Joy Thompson - Mrs. Monaghan
 * John Friesen - Mr. Noona