Ordinary Angels

1. Original Score — Pancho Burgos-Goizueta
2. Hard to Handle — Great White (featured)
3. Angels Among Us — Alabama (thematically referenced)

• The film earned a rare CinemaScore of A+ — the highest possible audience rating, given to only a handful of films each year. Notable fellow A+ recipients include The Dark Knight (2008), Toy Story 4 (2019) and Top Gun: Maverick (2022).
• Based on the true story of Sharon Steves, a real Louisville hairdresser who became a local legend after organising the community to help the Schmitt family during the historically brutal 1994 North American cold wave.
• Hilary Swank has won two Academy Awards for Best Actress — for Boys Don't Cry (1999) and Million Dollar Baby (2004) — making her one of only eight actresses in history to win the award twice.
• Co-screenwriter Kelly Fremon Craig also wrote and directed the acclaimed coming-of-age film The Edge of Seventeen (2016) and was later chosen to write and direct the Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret (2023) adaptation.
• Co-screenwriter Meg Tilly is best known as an actress (Agnes of God, The Big Chill) but has become a successful novelist and occasional screenwriter.
• Alan Ritchson, best known as the lead of Prime Video's Reacher (2022–present), said this role — a grieving widowed father — was among the most emotionally demanding of his career.
• The film arrived on Netflix in the US on July 21, 2026 — over two years after its theatrical release — giving it a significant new audience.

"You don't have to be perfect to do something extraordinary."

"Sometimes God uses the most ordinary people to do the most extraordinary things."

• Some period vehicles visible in background shots appear to be post-1994 models.
• A briefly visible digital clock display shows a format not in common use in Kentucky in 1994.