Elvis and Annabelle

In “Elvis and Anabelle,” every terrible tragedy brings about something equally miraculous.

A beauty queen groomed by her overly ambitious mother (Mary Steenburgen), Anabelle (Blake Lively) wins the Miss Texas Rose tiara, when she dies tragically during a pageant of a heart condition, brought on by an eating disorder..

Her death lands her on the embalming table of Elvis, an embittered young man whose sense of family duty and love for his ailing father (Joe Mantegna) keep him from following any dream.

When Anabelle is miraculously resurrected on Elvis’ embalming table, by his kiss, the two unexpectedly connect and sparks fly.

Elvis and Annabelle, with the help of each other and Elvis’ father, they discover love, freedom and happiness as the real world until their own demons threaten to force them apart.

A mother who kills herself, a drunken sexually abusive step father, an verly ambitious mother, a physically and mentally dysfunctional father and Elvis and Annabelle…that takes place in a funeral pallor…makes for a good Texas love story-tragedy.

I enjoyed the movie but some of you guys might consider it a chick flick.

The video of “Elvis and Annabelle,” below is the first of a 10 part series, if you can’t catch it on Lifetime, run the videos. I give it a thumbs-up.