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Love meet Hope (2016)

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THREE TALES PRODUCTIONS   Morgan means Defender of the Sea " The world was made round so that if two people who are meant to be together should choose to take different paths in life, they would wrap around and end up right back to each other to meet again, regardless of circumstance . " Love Meet Hope follows two characters: Morgan, a recent divorcée who is attending the memorial of his grandmother, and a young woman who works at the bakery Morgan frequents. While Morgan is mourning his failed marriage, and Morgan's grandfather mourns the death of his adored wife, the young woman mourns the fact that love seems an ever-elusive fairytale to her. While at his grandmother's memorial, Morgan encounters a book entitled "Love Meet Hope", containing a series of love stories that his grandfather wrote for his grandmother. The stories are all imaginative and fantastical versions of how his grandfather and grandmother had fallen in love. Each chapter of the bo...

The Bachelor (1999) LOOSELY Based on the play and 1925 Film SEVEN CHANCES (Non-review)

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This is a poster for The Bachelor. The poster art copyright is believed to belong to the distributor of the film, New Line Cinema, the publisher of the film or the graphic artist. Official website The Bachelor  at the  Internet Movie Database The Bachelor  at the  TCM Movie Database The Bachelor  at  AllMovie The Bachelor  at  Rotten Tomatoes The Bachelor  at  Box Office Mojo Storyline from imdb:  Jimmie is seeing his single friends get married one by one. He isn't too worried until his girlfriend Anne catches the bouquet at his friend Marco's wedding. Suddenly, his wild mustang days are numbered. He finally decides to propose to her, but he sticks his foot in his mouth and botches the proposal. Being insulted by the defeatist proposal, Anne leaves town on an assignment. After she's gone, he finds out that his recently-deceased grandfather's will stipulates that he gets nothing of a multi-million dollar fortune unless ...

Pope John XXIII "Papa Giovanni - Ioannes XXIII" (2002) -TV Movie now on DVD

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LOU GRANT star, Ed Asner as the Pope who recently became a Saint, John XXIII Pacem in Terris Massimo Ghini played a big part as the younger Angelo Roncalli Watching the DVD version of this TV movie proves again that one cannot know everything.  When  you read certain books and documents, you can only imagine how certain aspects of one's life are. True, not everything could be tackled, but more or leas you get to know or visualize a person's traits or psyche. Biopics sometimes differ from what actually happen in real life. Sometimes they are presented as if the ones watching are wearing rose colored lenses. Others are produced at times to malign the "other party".  Thankfully, this TV movie is very fair to all sides, even to the detractors of the very humble then future Saint. I watched this with my brothers and sisters in our Prayer Community.  I was actually late for 25 minutes(although it was announced to be shown at 7:30 in the...