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It is a story that will touch your heart. Jim Crawford (Michael Flynn), a retired big city attorney, has just lost his wife to cancer. His son, Alan (Tim Shoemaker) and his two children are forced to leave right after the funeral to return to their home, leaving Jim utterly alone in the rural home his wife so dearly loved.

While still lost in the depths of despair, Jim is confronted by an angel, Raphael (Jimmy Chunga), whom Jim thinks is an apparition brought on by his grief. But this is no chance encounter - Raphael tells Jim he has been sent specifically to help him become the man his wife always knew him to be - provide support to his family, and save his home town from a destructive developer.

Although still skeptical of Raphael’s very existence, and tormented by his own grief, Jim reluctantly follows Raphael’s direction leading him towards a wolf den, where he discovers four orphaned wolf pups that will certainly die if he doesn’t help. In spite of his own misery, he takes them in.

Jim knows nothing about wolves, let alone wolf cubs, but with Raphael’s urging he learns to care for them, and in the process works through his own problems. Unlikely friends have found each other, and discovered hope in an unlikely way. With help from some of the people in town, including one of his wife’s best friends, Maggie (Tayva Patch), Jim brings the wolves from the edge of extinction to a healthy pack which roams the forest near his home.

Meanwhile, the interaction with the townspeople has brought Jim into contact with Beddows (David Nibley), the unscrupulous developer who is trying to bulldoze the whole town and replace it with a glitzy resort. Raphael reminds Jim that his legal skills could help the town, and reluctantly, Jim goes back to being a lawyer. Beddows deviously tries to hire Jim’s old law firm, where Jim’s son now works, attempting to pit father against son. Instead, he brings father and son together to uncover his last desperate attempt to take over the entire town.

Jim misses the friendship of the wolves, but assumes they are gone for good. Lurking in the background, the scheming Beddows devises a plan to get Jim out of the way by putting his beloved wolves in danger. Jim learns of the scheme, and while searching the forest to protect the wolves from Beddows, Jim is attacked by a grizzly bear. Without warning, the four wolves come to Jim’s aid and fend off the angry bear. Jim realizes they have always been there…watching out for him…and the four wolves repaid their friend for his kindness.

Soon after the attack, a bruised yet determined Jim joins forces with his son, and together they reveal Beddows’ fraudulent attempts to steal the property of the townspeople. Raphael’s work is done - Jim and his family are reunited, the town is saved, and the wolves are a constant reminder that the best things in life happen when you give yourself by helping others.

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Grizzly Adams® Productions, Inc. presents FRIENDS FOR LIFE
Based Upon the Story by: CHARLES E. SELLIER
Screenplay by: JOSEPH MEIER
Produced by: MCKAY DAINES, MICHAEL FLYNN, JOSEPH MEIER
Original Music by: Merrill Jenson
Edited by: Mark Nelson
Director of Photography: RON HILL
Supervising Producer: CHARLES E. SELLIER
Directed by: MICHAEL SPENCE