# Please ID Christmas movie **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 24, 2010, 10:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-id-christmas-movie/565276 "2010-12-24T10:52:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Jormungandr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a6a055/32.png) [@Jormungandr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jormungandr)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2010, 10:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-id-christmas-movie/565276/1 "2010-12-24T10:52:13Z")
I need help remembering and identifying a Christmas TV movie It was made in the mid to late 1980s and was about a cowboy who died and became an angel to a little girl. Her family is struggling financially. While her father is in the spirit, her mother just tolerates the holiday. Later, her father is killed during a robbery. (Now the rest is sketchy to me). The angel take the mother to see Santa Claus, who show her a letter she wrote to him to restore her faith. When they return, the father is alive. Any help would be appreciated. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2010, 11:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-id-christmas-movie/565276/2 "2010-12-24T11:22:27Z")
[One Magic Christmas](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Magic_Christmas), I think. With Sarah Polley, Mary Steenburgen, and Harry Dean Stanton. ---
**Author:** ![Jormungandr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a6a055/32.png) [@Jormungandr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jormungandr)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2010, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-id-christmas-movie/565276/3 "2010-12-25T04:47:34Z")
Yes, that’s it. Thank you very much. :)😃