Unlikely Angel

Dolly Parton portrays a country-music performer who meets an untimely demise, but cannot enter heaven until she performs a good deed back on Earth: to reunite a workaholic widower with his children for Christmas.

Unlikely Angel is a 1996 fantasy comedy movie directed by Michael Switzer, starring Dolly Parton, Roddy McDowall, Brian Kerwin. It holds an IMDb rating of 6.3/10 from 1,458 votes and runs 1h 35m.