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In the past two decades, the world has become a place full of convenient technology. You can get anything on your doorstep within ten minutes. Now imagine it is the mid-1990s. No smartphones, no GoFundMe and no viral posts to rally thousands in a second. Just a woman, a small town, and a little girl who needed a miracle. This is what this Netflix film is all about.

Ordinary Angels is a film so quietly powerful that it catches you off guard. Based on a true story, it brings to life a time when hope was not digital. It was personal and earned with struggles.

At the centre of this Netflix film is Sharon Stevens, played by Hilary Swank. She is a hairdresser barely getting by, drowning in grief and alcohol. Her life feels small and broken until she sees a newspaper article about a widowed father trying to save his sick daughter. No money. No options. There is only one last chance to survive.

Surprisingly, something shifts in Sharon that day. This woman does not know the family. She has no grand plan for them. But she shows up anyway. But not to save them, or at least not at first. She just wants to help, and that is what makes this story feel so real. It is messy and unpolished, but most importantly, it is incredibly moving.

What follows is a chain of small, human efforts that snowball into something remarkable. Sharon rallies the community. She cuts hair around the clock to raise money. She argues with hospitals, calls in favours, and pushes everyone. But the person she pushes the most is herself, far beyond what they thought was possible.

But if you think that the heart of the film is the fundraising, then that’s not it. It is all in the quiet moments. The late-night porch talks. The exhausted hugs. The snowstorms that bring everything to a halt. One particularly tense sequence involves the family needing to get to another state in a blizzard, with no clear way out. Roads are closed, and planes are grounded. But our hero, Sharon, refuses to let this be the end. She gets the town together, clears a path, and finds a way to get that little girl to where she needs to be.

And there it is, something deeply comforting about a film like this. It does not rely on special effects or grand speeches. Ordinary Angels is not about superheroes or miracles from the sky. It is about people, ordinary people. Regular people, doing what they can with what they have.

And that is what makes Ordinary Angels feel so special. It reminds you that in a world obsessed with the next big thing, sometimes the quiet, old-school fight for someone’s life is the most powerful story you can tell. And hence the film was named that.

It is now streaming on Netflix. Watch it when you need a little faith in the good that still exists.