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‘The Chosen,’ Candace Cameron Bure, Dolly Parton Win at This Year’s Movieguide Awards

 

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“A Christmas…Present” also won the award for Best Family Television. The film is notable for being Bure’s first movie with Great American Family, the network for which Bure left the Hallmark Channel.

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“Puss in Boots: The Last Wish” and “Sonic the Hedgehog 2” tied for Best Family Movie, but “The Chosen” won the Epiphany Prize for Most Uplifting Movie, beating Mark Wahlberg’s “Father Stu: Reborn,” a PG-13 version of Wahlberg’s previously R-rated movie

Dolly Parton won the Epiphany Prize for the most inspiring television show for her Christmas special, “Dolly Parton’s Mountain Magic Christmas.”

According to Movieguide, “The Epiphany Prize for Inspiring Movies & TV is awarded to popular, entertaining movies and television programs that are wholesome, spiritually uplifting, inspirational, redemptive and moral.”

“It’s so encouraging to see that families are continuing to vote with their dollars,” said Movieguide founder and publisher Dr. Ted Baehr. “They’re choosing to watch content that promotes forgiveness, self-sacrifice, teamwork, redemption, and more positive attributes.”