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Bad Date Chronicles Written by Rick Garman Christmas Connection Writing Credits   Andrea Stevens ... (teleplay by) and Gregg Rossen ... (teleplay by) & Brian Sawyer ... (teleplay by) Andrea Stevens ... (story by) What do these two movies have in common?  The director: Steven R. Monroe. Which do I like better? I really can't compare the two.  One story reminds us that no one, absolutely no one, can play God. The other story is about, like the title says, Christmas Connections. The first story is a series of mishaps and manipulations. The second story is very heartwarming. If you have the time, do click the links and see for yourselves if you like them or not. Thanks for your time.  

Harriet Lauler (Shirley MacLaine), a once-sucycessful businesswoman, works with young local writer Anne Serman (Amanda Seyfried) to pen her life story. When the initial result doesn't meet Lauler's high expectations, she sets out to reshape the way she'll be remembered, dragging Anne along as an unw illing accomplice. As their journey unfolds, the two women develop a strong bond which not only alters Harriet's legacy but also Anne's future.-WWW (source) Seyfried, MacLaine and Dixon The story is not entirely new and so is Ms MacLaine's character(is she typecast or something?), but I like the movie...well, maybe not everything, especially the cussing, but somehow I get why those expletives "had" to be uttered(Hmmm...am I warming up to someone or something???? Non sequitur). Both MacLaine and Seyfried produced this film, so they are on equal footing, but you cannot discount the vibrance of the child actor named Anne Jewel Lee Dixon.  S...

(The  source  has spoilers) The Griffith Observatory's Planetarium The first time I've seen this was at the Alabang Town Center, with three of my friends.   The second time, dad was so guilty (and grateful at the same time) that he disturbed my resting because he became hungry that he made me cook a late lunch(we ate brunch after mass and he said I didn't need to cook lunch).  I didn't know he saw me crying because my left side was numb. I was scared of being paralyzed, but I thought he was in the office(a room in the house).  I cooked a large fish, that he almost devoured it(he thought I was cooking because he smelled something from the neighbor's kitchen that he called me up---yes, he did, because I was upstairs...I tried to sound happy to receive his call, so he wouldn't worry about me).  Thank God, when I was able to taste a teeny portion, it was delicious.   "Let's watch a movie," he said.  "What do you want to watch?" ...