Dolly Parton portrays a country-music performer who meets an untimely demise, but cannot enter heaven until she performs a good deed back on Earth: to reunite a workaholic widower with his children for Christmas.
A father who can't keep his promises dies in a car accident. One year later, he returns as a snowman who has the final chance to put things right with his son before he is gone forever. /// A father passes away but comes back to life in the form of a snowman.
Tagline: He's the world's coolest dad and he's gonna prove it.
Trivia: George Clooney was originally attached to the project, but when he left to do Batman & Robin (1997), ex-Batman Michael Keaton was cast into the lead role. This caused no end of trouble for Jim Henson's Creature Shop, because they had designed their snowman animatronic specifically to Clooney's facia
The Family Tree (aka A Rottweiler Runs Through It) (2000) S1.E13
Tucker's grandmother visits the Wennick household for Christmas. Claire's and Jeannie's mother, the only woman on Earth more critical than Claire, visits the Wennick household for Christmas, and makes no secret of the fact that Claire is her least favorite relative. Although Tucker at first enjoys seeing his aunt put in her place, he starts to feel bad for her, and eventually tells his grandmother what he thinks of her motherly advice -- which doesn't quite have the desired effect. Meanwhile, Leon schemes to find out what Jimmy does in his private greenhouse, and Grandma Wennick's rottweiler, Vegas, ruins Christmas dinner.
