''Miracle Child'' is a 1993 American

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based on the novel ''Miracle at Clement's Pond'' by Patricia Pendergraft. It was filmed in Archer,

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and featured historic homes and churches in and around Archer. It was produced by Steve White Productions. It is part of the

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Family Classics line.

Plot

A despairing young widow (

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) who abandons her baby at pond-side among bulrushes and a traveling man (

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) who's fighting to reclaim his own son ( Graham Sack) are drawn together. A baby plops out of a rainy, stormy sky into the arms of the town's beloved, vaguely addled spinster (

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). Miracles suddenly reverse the fortunes of the town as drought and unemployment disappear, only to be replaced by boosterism and greed.

Cast

as Lisa Porter *

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as Doc Betty *

as Buck Sanders * Graham Sack as Lyle Sanders *

as Adeleine Newberry * George D. Wallace as Grandpa * Lexi Randall as Taffy Marshall *

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as John Marshall *

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as Judge * Bekka Allen as Willa Mrshall * Rick Galloway as English * Ryk O. aka Dick Ochampaugh as Cueball * Thomas C. Chapman as Old Jack * John Archie as Sherriff Peak (sic) * Brett Cipes as The Whittler * Rocky Essex as Painter

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