Amish Grace (2010)

Directed by

Gregg Champion

Genre

drama film, biographical film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 29m

Rating

7.0 of 10 from 52 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A community struggles to cope with a school shooting that takes the lives of several children. The film focuses on the Amish families as they navigate grief and find a path toward forgiving the shooter.

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What happens

Amish Grace is a television film that premiered on the Lifetime Movie Network on Palm Sunday, March 28, 2010. The film is based on the 2006 West Nickel Mines School shooting at Nickel Mines, Pennsylvania, and the spirit of forgiveness the Amish community demonstrated in its aftermath. The film stars Kimberly Williams-Paisley, Tammy Blanchard, and Matt Letscher and is based on the book Amish Grace: How Forgiveness Transcended Tragedy, Jossey-Bass, 2007, ISBN 0-7879-9761-7, by Donald Kraybill, Steven Nolt, and David L. Weaver-Zercher. Amish Grace was executive-produced by Larry A. Thompson, written by Sylvie White and Teena Booth, and directed by Gregg Champion. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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