not a 'late night infomercial'

If you have time TravelJunkie23 please read the other, albeit longer post I wrote. Most importantly read the parents reply.
You have the right to your opinion but I think you seemed to lose sight of the Locke family being real and this is their story. You cannot share a story of battling childhood cancer without mentioning several times the place you call home, in this case for a year & a half.
I won't ask you to view the movie again but perhaps reconsider your review in the light of what you know now. I would hate for people who need this movie to avoid it because of your review. In all honesty I don't watch the infomercials of St. Jude but I am a supporter as small as that might be. I think perhaps you didn't know this movie is helpful to families going through this crisis in many ways. Besides the other things I've mentioned about the movie it also explains to those who are fortunate enough to never need the council of cancer families to understand how support of community is important. Perhaps the Anderson family's friends watched this movie and decided to do Lanterns for Lily. Since Lily died this week of cancer I can only imagine the family's feeling of love & support as they drove home from the hospital that last night passing many porches with lanterns on them, now in memory of their beautiful daughter. I invite you to go to Caringbridge and just read the journal of one family, chosen at random before deciding this is nothing more than an infomercial. It is a true story of courage, support and loss.

For drthdve! Thank you for your review and spelling out the "good" of this movie. I just wanted you to know that many children's hospitals, including St. Jude do not expect a patient without means to pay for their care. I don't mean poor either. In my friend's experience the hospital billed the insurance and what was not paid was written off by the hospital. I would just hate for your family or a friend's to think they couldn't seek care for their child when there are hospitals willing to help under any circumstances! Now you have the knowledge to spread that bit of info yourself!
Thanks for writing about The Heart of Christmas & explaining why you thought the movie was good to watch. If you'd paste your thoughts here as well many more people might watch this movie on Netflik, Amazon Prime or tv instead of forging it, as I almost did, because of low ratings here. This movie might touch so many lives. As you said in reminding yourself to be thankful or as Jalapenoman said, it brought back some of the fondest memories of their own daughter who died 18 years ago to childhood cancer at such a young age. There's many reasons this movie is good and St. Jude is such a small part of it. It's a story of hope, courage and community! And as you said Thankfullness!

My son and I never had to go to st. Jude, but we did spend 3 years in a st. Louis hospital because of some other serious complications for his health.This movie hit home with how the staff was, the other parents and kids were, my friends and family were, just everything.This movie makes me cry every time because I was lucky enough to have my boy survive, and I feel for and talk to Julie once a week because I know how much this story touched our family and how much I pray for her and dax every day.