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Fallen Angel is a Christmas Hallmark Hall of Fame movie that premiered on CBS on November 23, 2003.

Synopsis[]

8-year-old Terry McQuin (Jake Brockman) lives with his widowed father, Mac ( Micheal Rhoades), who is a caretaker to the Wentworth cabin and other cabins of rich families. Terry's mother died when he was very young, so that made Mac very protective. On his ninth birthday he is given a fingerprinting kit which he loves very much. He meets the Wentworth family: Charles Wentworth (Rick Roberts), Mrs. Wentworth (Alisa Wiegers), and four-year-old Katherine (Ryan Simpkins). Terry fingerprints Katherine's thumb. One night Charles takes the kids to a hospital dressed as Santa Claus to give presents. The task is succeeded.

Unfortunately, while coming back during a winter storm, Charles accidentally kills a woman and a little girl after his car crashed into theirs while they were fixing their stranded one. He flees and is presumed dead. Katherine is crying, one of her shoes falls out, and her mother leaves with her forever. Mac is overly protective after the accident and as a teenage Terry runs away and works as a business man in California. Years later adult Terry (Gary Sinies) returns after hearing Mac died. He moves into the cabin and meets Katherine (Joely Richardson) who has a daughter she adopted named Olivia Wentworth (Jordy Benatter), who is blind.

Terry finds out that Charles is still alive. he visits the hospital (The same one he and Katherine visited before the accident) and finds a Christmas tree dedicated to him. When he asks the nurse she explains that he died years before in a car accident. Terry, however, has his own problems he is falling in love with Katherine and is trying to keep Charles a secret. A construction worker and a friend of Charles tells Terry Charles is homeless and lives in a parking garage. Terry visits him. He explains he left because the accident was in his guilt. Terry comforts him.

Terry and Katherine go ice skating the next day, Olivia adopts a stray dog and plays with it. When Terry asks about Charles, Katherine explains her mother told her that he was killed in the accident. Terry finally confesses to her that he is still alive. She refuses to believe it but Terry tells her the truth. He tells her he and her were children when they met, and were witnesses in a horrible accident in which a mother and child were killed. Katherine's mother filed for a divorce when her husband went missing and takes her. (She grows up believing Charles died in the accident.) Shehe is very upset and leaves with Oliva. Terry finally reunites her with Charles who is very old now. Terry, Katherine, and Olivia live happily.

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