Unlikely Angel

1996

Comedy / Fantasy

7
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 68% · 1 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 68% · 1K ratings
IMDb Rating 6.3/10 10 1435 1.4K

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Plot summary

A country singer dies prematurely, but cannot enter heaven until she performs a good deed back on earth.

Director

Michael Switzer Photo
Michael Switzer

Top cast

Maria del Mar Photo
Maria del Mar as Allison
Billy 'Sly' Williams Photo
Billy 'Sly' Williams as Security Guard
Roddy McDowall Photo
Roddy McDowall as Saint Peter
Dolly Parton Photo
Dolly Parton as Ruby Diamond
720p.WEB
845.01 MB
900*720
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
24 fps
1 hr 31 min
Seeds 1

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by mjanssens26 7 / 10

Cute Christmas movie

This is a sweet and happy holiday film where we get to watch Dolly in her prime working with the legendary Roddy McDowall. A fun film from the mid-90's, slightly dated due to an average film transfer but overall a nice time waster if you enjoy Christmas movies.
Reviewed by moonspinner55 6 / 10

Heaven puts Dolly Parton on hold...

Rebounding from her first foray into seasonal TV-movie fare (the forgettable "Smoky Mountain Christmas" from 1986), Dolly Parton tries again with this holiday-themed, sentimental confection...and does a very commendable job. A down-on-her-luck singer named Ruby Diamond (!) gets herself into a fatal car wreck and is later turned away from Heaven by St. Peter until she earns her wings on Earth by bringing a dysfunctional family together (under the guise of a cleavage-baring nanny). The brood consists of a widower father (the eternally-constipated Brian Kerwin), his snotty teenage daughter and alienated young son (who joins Dolly in a piano-and-guitar duet on "Jingle Bells"!). Dolly doesn't have to work hard at this role--the writers have already supplied Ruby with an angelic disposition that is hard to humbug, a background in country music, and childhood memories that just reek of smoky mountain holidays in Tennessee. Director Michael Switzer keeps Dolly feisty and funny throughout, and her rapport with saint Roddy McDowall is sweet, but the movie isn't very enticing on an emotional level. The kids merit little interest, the relationships between the adults is occasionally unclear, and small details such as where Dolly hangs up her fabulous wardrobe remain sketchy at best.
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