Angels Sing

Michael Walker loved Christmas as a boy, wanting the holiday to last all year, until a tragic accident took that joy from him. Thirty years on, he still cannot celebrate the season, even with encouragement from his wife Susan and his parents. The family is also searching for a new home in Austin, Texas, before their current place is sold, and Michael would rather avoid his parents' annual Christmas invitation. A chance meeting with a mysterious man named Nick leads to an unusual house at a surprisingly low price, with one condition attached: the new owner must keep up a neighborhood tradition. When his young son David faces a tragedy of his own, Michael is forced to confront the past he has been carrying.

Angels Sing is a family comedy-drama directed by Tim McCanlies, his second feature after Secondhand Lions in 2003, from a screenplay by Lou Berney. Harry Connick Jr. plays Michael, with Connie Britton as Susan and Chandler Canterbury as David. Fionnula Flanagan, Lyle Lovett and Willie Nelson appear among the forty-seven credited cast members, Nelson as Nick. The film runs eighty-seven minutes and was released in October 2013.

On TMDB it holds a rating of 5.5 out of 10 from fifty-seven votes, a small sample suggesting limited attention rather than broad acclaim.