Touched by Grace (2014) User Reviews

Overall good film.

[Marshall84 · 5/10 · 26 March 2023]

A young girl who is quite rambunctious moves to a new town and finds herself in a different pool of fishes and sharks, sotospeak. Plus her friendship with a special needs kid plays well over the course of the movie. Ben Davies is a good actor. The rest is a pretty good cast of characters. No nudity or profanity. But it does touch basis on mercy and forgiveness. So that will definitely make you think on how we perceive people because you never know what someone else is going through. I gave this movie a 5 out 5 stars. You can watch the movie and make your own assessments. Won't be disappointed.

Cute but could have been better

[santababyinc · 5/10 · 16 December 2018]

The script was cheesy and unrealistic and the acting was less than impressive. We bought the DVD when it was $5. I gave it a 5 because it had a good message, it was just not thought out as well as it could have been.

I like this movie very much!

[misstootsabel · 7/10 · 23 July 2023]

I really do like this movie but, the one problem I have is that it sometimes gives a vibe where it takes someone special to be friend a poor unfortunate soul with a disability. It isn't an "act of mercy" to befriend someone with a disability. You should be friends with a person because you like them. Nobody wants or needs "pity friends" Grace did not need Cara in her life. Grace was happy and she had friends and she had Jesus! Cara needed Grace. It was never the other way around. Disabled people were put here to live their life. Don't pity them or put them on a pedistool. They are not "poor sweet souls" sent here to teach non disabled people a lesson in always being sweet and happy. They are people just like everyone else! They get angry, they get their feelings hurt, sometimes they make the wrong choices and they are not lost little puppies that need non disabled people to take them under their wing and protect them from the cold hard world. At times they went too far with not letting Grace act like "a real person" she acted in a way that follows "the disabled person" trope. At the very start of the school year when Cara dropped Grace as soon as she thought she had the opportunity to be "popular" they should have made Grace very aware of the situation. Grace had the intellect to know "Hey, this girl that has been my best friend all Summer has suddenly not spoken to me at all since school started." They made it seem like Grace didn't pick up on this and I think that in real life someone like her would have! Instead, when Cara gets it through her thick head that the quality of a person's character is more important when choosing who you want to surround yourself with is more important than your popularity Grace is like a left behind puppy just glad that Cara has given her the time of day again.

I understand that as God loving people, we have to be able to forgive. It just didn't seem like Grace was even aware that Cara "wronged" her and needed her forgiveness in the first place and I don't like that being used as an example of how a disabled person would act. Grace had the intellect to be able to see that Cara ditched her and when Cara realized how stupidly she had been acting Grace could have really driven home the point by saying "I understand what you did to me Cara. You didn't hang around with me at school or let your other friends know that we were close. You did make a mistake Cara, but because I still love you and God still loves you, you can be my friend again." They could have easily gotten that line in when the two of them were preparing to go to the Prom.

I do give this movie 7 stars though because the movie had heart! The portrayal of Cara and Grace hitting it off so easily and becoming friends quickly was nice. It did show that you can find a friend that shares your values and just have fun with them and not worry about who has the higher if or who is "different." I also like the idea that it shows that it is never too late to realize you werent living up to your potential to be a good person and now you want to do better. The scene when Cara realizes that after getting to know Grace and stopping to realize that someone who didn't look or think like her allowed her to realize that the person she and her friends were doing mean things to at the start of the movie also had feelings and was more than just "a fat girl." I also like that Grace understood God. Grace understood that life transforms all of us. Sometimes we have to go through the "ugly" side of things before we can transform into the butterfly Jesus knows we can be. Her wearing the butterfly wings to the prom sort of filled her own profligacy. She had reached the end of what God needed her to do on this earth. Her transformation was done and she herself had reached her own "butterfly stage." Butterflies are beautiful creatures but they are fragile and sometimes they don't live as long as they could have. Cara reached her "butterfly" stage when she opened herself up to the church group, accepted Jesus into her heart and realized that good solid friends like Grace aren't always easy to come by and you should hold on to them no matter what. I also think it was good that the movie didn't take the approach where Grace would have gotten better, left the hospital and they would have been "bestest best friends forever." This movie let us know that even though God loves us, we don't always get that second chance to go back and change things when you know you could have done better. Cara was left with the fact that even though Grace still viewed her as a good person and let her know that in the end, often times we don't have the chance to go back and have things pan out the way you want them to. Cara will always know that Grace died before she could have shown her that she finally believed in God, finally attended the youth group and that she had finally gotten Grace's butterfly metaphor. Sometimes this is what happens in real life. People die and we don't always get a resolution. Sometimes we just have to go on knowing what that person tried to teach us - and do our best to incoperate what we have learned from them into our lives and just "do better."

A must watch for all those who judge others on outside!!

[howard-858-407434 · 8/10 · 22 January 2021]

This movie touched my heart and should inspire others especially those who like to judge others based on their appearance etc. We are all made in Gods image and for God all of us are equal so why not we treat others as how God would treat them.. especially those with disability anyone who the society rejects...all those who are in school or college must watch this movie..may be you can brighten somone's life especially the loner one's who don't have any friend.

Great Idea, Horrible Execution

[akdisser · 2/10 · 17 June 2018]

I don't usually write reviews, so for me to be writing this is saying a lot. I wanted to like this movie so badly as the topics that it covers are very close to my heart. But after watching it, all I can say is... no. The main character, Cara, is unlikeable at best. They try to show her character developing and learning to accept others, but all I can see is a character who continues to stand by as her "friends" make despicable comments like "I'm not going to homecoming on a short bus." I also have a problem with how Cara is portrayed as a saint for... being friends with someone? If all of this wasn't bad enough, the acting is cringeworthy and the writing is just bad. The only reason that I'm not giving this movie 1 star is because I did like their portrayal of Young Life-- finally media that highlights love, acceptance, and forgiveness as the principles of the Christian faith. I also have to give them props for actually hiring actors with Down Syndrome to portray the characters. But other than that... no. Just no. Don't waste your time with this movie.

Movie about bullying and forgiveness

[edithcw · 21 July 2016]

While the main character, Grace, is a Down syndrome person, this movie is not about Down syndrome for there is a lot of bullying of others as well, not only Grace. This movie deals with bullying, and the length teens will go to in order to be accepted by the popular crowd, as well as forgiveness. Down syndrome is not the main issue in the movie by any means, although it is discussed at one point. I found this movie to be touching, yet frustrating at times as I watched the main bully. I think this movie would be great for parents and teens to watch together. It would make a great opener for parents to discuss these things - peer pressure, acceptance, bullying, forgiveness, accepting people who are different. Touched by Grace held my attention, made me smile, and made me laugh. This movie also reminded me how precious all life is and reminded me of the Down syndrome people I have known who so freely gave their love.

This movie requires a lot of grace to watch

[kholton-26722 · 2/10 · 20 April 2022]

I watched this movie all the way through as I thought it had a Pertinent and important topic that needs dealt with. But it was Horribly written and acted! It could have been so much better.