God's New Plan (1999 TV Movie) User Reviews

Very teary,upsetting,heart tugging movie

[Awesome8SimpleRules · 10/10 · 1 April 2005]

This movie is so upsetting,You see a happy couple with everything going for them,they experience heartache and strength when their little girl is born prematurely and both mother and daughter are close to dieing but come through that.Then comes the awful blow of Katey Sagal's character Ellen begins to feel poorly so goes and gets herself checked out to find out she has cancer and slowly after treatment they find out its spread to the bone and cant do anything else.All Ellen can do is go home and spend time with her family,all the while knowing she wont see her daughter grow up so she decides that if she isn't going to be around she'd like her daughter to have a mom,so she sets it all up for her husband and the nurse who helped with her daughter to see each other when she dies,they don't want to.Its really really upsetting when Ellen dies in this,Katey does an excellent job doing that,making u feel she has.Even tho all of this sadness has happened there is a happy ending:)people should definitely watch this movie.

A realistic and sentimental story that few will forget if seen....

[rpcseg-696-950591 · 10/10 · 24 February 2012]

As a mental health professional, and faculty member of the Osher Lifelong Institute at Towson University, Baltimore, Md., who presents twice a year, film series focusing on the psychological aspect of the film stories, I am strongly recommending the film, "God's New Plan" ("No Higher Love") to all those able to cope with the life and death of our Life. Telling this story through the eyes of Ellen, the Mother of Emmy, reveals an author who was able to incorporate the sensitivities of the tragic aspect of an early demise of a parent who could and did face honestly and forthrightly the future of her and her family's lives. I am carefully couching my review so anyone reading this will be curious enough to view this film and grow accordingly in wisdom and in insight. The mental health provider was particularly sensitive with the material she was given to perform. I found her to be an excellent representative of my profession. The other characters without exception, gave stellar and peerless performances as well. In conclusion, this film will become one of my selected films for a future film series that I will present. Seriously consider this film to view and ponder the profound implications for each of US!

Tough material, well handled

[Nozz · 8/10 · 5 June 2009]

This is a movie that doesn't fool around. It treats one major concern; and other matters that, in real life, would normally occupy the characters from time to time are shunted aside. Annabeth Gish is a single mother of two working twelve-hour days as a nurse, but it seems that luckily her children are angelic, it's seldom evident that she has more than one patient to worry about, and somehow she can regularly find time to spare on her day off. Tom Irwin is rather a cipher as the ideal husband, whose parents are the ideal in-laws. I'm not even sure what he does for a living. (Does he run a bookstore? Well, it doesn't matter.) The dialogue goes straight to the point-- so much so, I'd say, that the actors and director deserve considerable credit for making it seem realistically conversational as they put it across. But they do put it across, and the movie grips you despite the sketchiness of almost all the characters. Annabeth Gish is always magnetic, and Katy Sagal courageously submits to an outward deglamorization to make her character all the more noble.