Fans of It’s A Wonderful Life (1946) and The Bishop’s Wife (1947) cannot miss this heartwarming romantic comedy with an inspirational, faith-based heart, starring Andrew McCarthy of Pretty In Pink and St. Elmo’s Fire.

Raymond is the black sheep of the family, a man who has been getting by on handouts from his half-brother Otis. He has lost his job, his apartment and just about all of his confidence when news arrives that he has inherited a property in the English countryside. Otis happily buys him a one-way ticket to claim his new title as “Lord of the Manor.” But Raymond discovers that his inheritance is not a grand country house at all: it is a small, crumbling stone church, and it happens to sit at the center of a scheme by the village scrooge, Malcolm Slee, who is desperately searching for a precious chest of gold said to have been hidden in the village by King Charles at the end of the English Civil War.

At first Raymond accepts Slee’s offer to buy the church. Then Rachel, who runs the local Bed & Breakfast, tells him that a family with children is living on the property, and he has second thoughts. As Raymond and Rachel grow closer, a mysterious young orphan named Diggity picks him out. Diggity believes that if he can help Raymond find his way in life, he will earn his angel wings.

The film is directed by Tom Reeve and also features Louise Lombard, known as Sofia Curtis in CSI, and Bill Treacher, familiar to British viewers as Arthur Fowler in EastEnders. It is rated PG for some mild thematic elements, which makes it a good choice for family viewing.

Angels who come down to help ordinary people are one of the most beloved ideas in classic Hollywood. In It’s A Wonderful Life, Clarence the angel earns his wings by saving George Bailey, and in The Bishop’s Wife, Cary Grant plays an angel who helps a clergyman at a moment of crisis. Add a buried royal treasure, a village full of colorful characters and a hero who has to learn what he is really worth, and you have a story in which the tone stays light, funny and hopeful from start to finish. Tales of treasure hidden during the English Civil War are a staple of English local legend, and a crumbling old church in a village is the perfect place for the past and the present to meet.

A gentle, uplifting story about second chances, community and the idea that even the most unlikely helper can make a difference.

Heaven Must Wait (also known as Diggity: A Home At Last, 2001)
Genre: Uplifting, Family, Romance
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