Ordinary Angels

[Opens Feb. 23 in theaters.] When an alcoholic, fireball, tenacious, wheeler-dealer hairdresser (Hilary Swank), who has an estranged son (Dempsey Bryk), meets at a funeral a struggling, grieving, widowed construction worker (Alan Ritchson), who lives in his home with his supportive mother (Nancy Travis) and two young daughters (Emily Mitchell and Skywalker Hughes) in Louisville, Ky., in 1993 and learns his youngest daughter needs a liver transplant in Jon Gunn's gripping, factually based, poignant, moving, suspenseful, inspirational, touching, 116-minute film, she rallies the townsfolk, including her salon owner boss (Tamala Jones), to raise money to help with medical bills and the life-saving transplant operation.
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