Bizarrely Violent ABC Family Christmas Movie? (2002-2004?)
Dec 6, 2021 1:11:16 GMT
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Post by sharked98 on Dec 6, 2021 1:11:16 GMT
So this has been bothering me for quite a while, because I have rather vivid memories of catching the opening scene of this movie, but I have absolutely no idea what the title is, nor what it was actually about.
Sometime between 2002 or 2004 during the respective Christmas season, 7-9 year old me grew up in a family that often put on the ABC Family's 25 Days of Christmas on our television set, and during one of these years I remember seeing promos for one film in particular that caught my eye. It was a live-action movie, likely a comedy, and I vaguely recall a scene involving what may have been a Christmas pageant with both children and adults. On the day it aired there may have been a film that played before it, but as there was really nothing else on worth our interests, me and my family decided to watch a little bit of what this was.
Needless to say, the opening scene caught everyone off guard. The movie began with a scene of a grassy field next to a large tree as a little girl danced and played right under the leaves. She was wearing a white dress and may have been dressed up as an angel or a fairy, minding her own business while gentle music played in the background. Out of nowhere, a rambunctious boy around the same age ran up to her wearing a cowboy outfit, pulled out an ACTUAL GUN and SHOT AT HER, causing her to fall to the ground with a comically red blood stain on her dress. Almost immediately my parents changed the channel due to the abrupt violence, and I never really found out what the context was for the scene (presumably it was a dream sequence, and I highly doubt this was meant to be taken seriously with the rest of the film)
I attempted to find this movie years later, but I can't seem to find anything out there that remotely matches up to what I saw that evening. I remember seeing ads for the movie sometime between 2002 or 2004, but it very well could have premiered some time before then. I'm very willing to bet this may have been an episode of some TV show instead, but aside from that opening scene and some vague memories of the promos, I really have nothing to work from.
If anyone here recognizes something similar to what I saw, I'd greatly like to learn more about it, for closure if anything.
Sometime between 2002 or 2004 during the respective Christmas season, 7-9 year old me grew up in a family that often put on the ABC Family's 25 Days of Christmas on our television set, and during one of these years I remember seeing promos for one film in particular that caught my eye. It was a live-action movie, likely a comedy, and I vaguely recall a scene involving what may have been a Christmas pageant with both children and adults. On the day it aired there may have been a film that played before it, but as there was really nothing else on worth our interests, me and my family decided to watch a little bit of what this was.
Needless to say, the opening scene caught everyone off guard. The movie began with a scene of a grassy field next to a large tree as a little girl danced and played right under the leaves. She was wearing a white dress and may have been dressed up as an angel or a fairy, minding her own business while gentle music played in the background. Out of nowhere, a rambunctious boy around the same age ran up to her wearing a cowboy outfit, pulled out an ACTUAL GUN and SHOT AT HER, causing her to fall to the ground with a comically red blood stain on her dress. Almost immediately my parents changed the channel due to the abrupt violence, and I never really found out what the context was for the scene (presumably it was a dream sequence, and I highly doubt this was meant to be taken seriously with the rest of the film)
I attempted to find this movie years later, but I can't seem to find anything out there that remotely matches up to what I saw that evening. I remember seeing ads for the movie sometime between 2002 or 2004, but it very well could have premiered some time before then. I'm very willing to bet this may have been an episode of some TV show instead, but aside from that opening scene and some vague memories of the promos, I really have nothing to work from.
If anyone here recognizes something similar to what I saw, I'd greatly like to learn more about it, for closure if anything.
