oprah winfrey presents mitch albom's for one more day 2007

I will get to Holiday in Handcuffs tomorrow, and today I am going to focus on Oprah Winfrey presents Mitch Albom’s For One More Day which airs Sunday, December 9th at 9:00 on ABC.īeing a guy, I only know Oprah from Peggy Bundy’s obsession for her and Bon Bons and her feud with David Letterman. And like most years, there is a couple that hope to become future Christmas classics, two of which premiere this Sunday. There will be plenty of mainstays that will be popping up this month like It's a Wonderful Life, countless A Christmas Carol versions, and of course the twenty four hours of A Christmas Story. Kudos also to director Lloyd Kramer for imposing order and symmetry on a story that is constantly in motion between past and present.December is the time for movies on television. The film is helped by the solid work of Burstyn and particularly Imperioli, who makes Chick a far more sympathetic figure than you would expect. And boy, oh boy, did he ever misjudge Mom. Between flashbacks, he discovers that the father he idolized was in reality a bullheaded egomaniac and worse. Thus ends his incredulity.Įvery minute or so, the story flashes back to Chick’s youth, and particularly his unhappy relationship with his father (Scott Cohen), who pushes him to become a baseball player. “You make too much of things,” his mother reassures him. Of course, Chick has trouble believing he’s hanging out with a ghost. Mom spends the day with him, cleaning his wounds, offering him counsel and encouragement and taking him on visits to older women friends on the cusp of death. He puts a pistol to his head, but as he is about to fire, he spots his mother (Ellen Burstyn), who died nine years earlier. In the first of a long list of miracles, he survives with only minor cuts and bruises. Angry and despondent, he buys a six-pack and drives off into the rainy night, resulting in the inevitable car crash.

Michael Imperioli stars as the alcoholic and depressed Chick Benetto, who learns after the fact that he wasn’t invited to his daughter’s wedding for fear that he would create yet another scene. My Cannes Moment: Joseph Kosinski, Warwick Thornton, Christian Mungiu, Paul Laverty and James Marsh on Their Best Festival Experiences

Oprah winfrey presents mitch albom's for one more day 2007