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Overall it has been a not bad movie. Lifetime movies typically end up with the guy beating the woman, or cheating on the woman, or doing any other host of things to advance the message: "woman good man bad." I guess they do that because of women's own general world view, but I digress.

That said, I'm a sucker for emo films when it comes to spirituality. Personally, I'm not sure about John Edwards, and this movie doesn't seem to follow the plot of his book by the same name. In the book the main character is a man; Lifetime's artistic license with the movie I guess. I think the title is interesting too because G.K. Chesterton, a famous Christian apologist, once said "God is like the sun; you cannot look at it, but without it, you cannot look at anything else." There is a connection made by a dialogue between Lacey and Gena Rowlands where they ponder "the light" and where it is during our darkest hours.

Anyway, Lacey plays a nurse with lots of emotions and little in the way of expressing or dealing with them after her father dies. A terminally ill patient, after checking herself out of the hospital, requests Lacey's character, Janie, as her caretaker and teary-eyed emotion commences. I think Lacey's acting is ironically better when not doing sad scenes with the exception of the scene where she plays the part of Donnie to a blind woman just before she dies.