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Omeganian
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Schlubalybub
Since: Feb, 2013
Omeganian
(4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
Borriz
Since: Jun, 2015

A black-and-white film I saw on UK telly somewhere between 1990 and 1994, although I'm pretty certain it was American.
It starts with a record spinning on a player, and I think it ends the same way. There's a girl who is playing the star in the nativity, and all she needs as her costume is a pair of sneakers (there- it must've been American, I specifically remember her saying "sneakers" not "trainers")
As she's moving the star across the sky, she slips on a pipe or something and falls down, possibly knocking part of the set down.
Years later, a family knocks on the door asking to use the phone as their car has broken down and the children are late for the nativity- some in costume and one in a pair of sneakers. The original girl may or may not have died in the years between. I really can't remember.
Tried asking my mum about this, because I do remember crying over it later that night when I first watched it, but she doesn't remember it at all.
Thanks everyone!