For Better or for Worse: A Christmas Angel (1992)

• 80%
• 1992
• Animation
• Family
• Sebastian Grunstra

The Patterson family prepares to celebrate Christmas, but middle child Elizabeth Patterson is feeling increasingly left out. Her parents are too preoccupied with chores to pay attention to her, and her older brother Michael does not want to hang out with her. Elizabeth has been asked to watch over her baby sister April, but has a tough time with preventing the baby from damaging things. April breaks a Christmas angel, Elly Patterson's favorite Christmas ornament. Elly blames Elizabeth for the damage. Elizabeth later attempts to hang out with her friends, but they also seem to ignore her. While trying to entertain herself, Elizabeth has a minor accident and falls unconscious. She wakes up at night, lost in the woods outside her home. An unfamiliar old woman, Grace, offers her hospitality and gives her a pep talk. Grace later escorts Elizabeth home, while the worried Patterson family search the woods for Elizabeth. Grace mysteriously disappears, but the Pattersons are overjoyed to be reunited with Elizabeth. They muse that you can replace broken things, but your loved ones are irreplaceable.