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The Magic of Ordinary Days (2005)

The Magic of Ordinary Days poster
Directed by
Brent Shields
Genre
drama, romance, tv movie
Country
United States
Runtime
2h
Rated
PG
Rating
7.3 of 10 from 99 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A pregnant woman in the 1940s enters a marriage of convenience with a lonely farmer. They slowly build a life together on his remote farm.

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What happens

The Magic of Ordinary Days is a Hallmark Hall of Fame production based on a novel of the same name by Ann Howard Creel and adapted as a teleplay by Camille Thomasson. It was directed by Brent Shields, produced by Andrew Gottlieb and stars Keri Russell, Skeet Ulrich, and Mare Winningham. The film first aired on CBS on January 30, 2005, and received an encore broadcast on the same network exactly five years later. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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