The Magic of Ordinary Days (2005)

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.



^ Full cast and crew for The Magic of Ordinary Days. - IMDb.

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^ Hallmark Hall of Fame's Acclaimed The Magic of Ordinary Days Is Special Encore Presentation on CBS, a January 7, 2010 press release from the Hallmark website

Synopsis

In 1944 a young woman, Olivia (Livvy) Dunne (Keri Russell), became pregnant before marriage, and is sent to rural southeastern town in Colorado by her father, Rev. Dunne (Daryl Shuttleworth), who arranged it through another preacher. The groom is Ray Singleton (Skeet Ulrich) and lives on a remote farm with no modern conveniences other than hot and cold running water. He is very different from Livvy, and focuses on his family, his land, his faith in God, and the things at hand. Livvy is highly educated with a graduate degree in archeology, cannot cook, cannot farm and is not particularly religious.

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