Rueben's Ramblings

The Hallmark Movie Channel will debut the film The Color of Rain on May 31 at 9 PM.

Inspired by the true story of Gina Kell and Michael Spehn, the film follows both families as they become one after cancer tragically claims both Gina’s husband and Michael’s wife just six weeks apart. When young husband and father Matt Kell succumbs to a terminal cancer diagnosis on Christmas day 2005, his widow, Gina (Lacey Chabert from Party of Five and Mean Girls) and two young boys are left to cope with the pain of his loss while their close church community gathers around them for support. Wanting to be close to her kids, Gina starts to volunteer at their elementary school and meets the Spehn children, Jack, Danny and Charlotte. In a gut-wrenching coincidence, just weeks after Matt’s death, the Spehn’s mom, Cathy, is also suddenly taken by cancer, leaving her distraught husband, Michael (Warren Christie from Alphas and October Road), to care for their three kids on his own.

Sensing the hopelessness in Michael she so recently saw in herself, Gina reaches out to Michael and his kids and the two families begin to forge an unlikely friendship. During the year that follows, their lives become intertwined as they learn to lean on each other during, at-times, insurmountable obstacles, tears and adversity. They begin to heal with laughter, compassion and faith. And, when Gina and Michael realize their newfound bond could be more than just friendship, they struggle against surprising resistance from their families and community to unite their two grieving families as one, and eventually learn to open their hearts to love again.

Here is a trailer for The Color of Rain.