Nominate your real life hero with #AnnieMovie and you could be in the chance of winning £150 worth of High Street Vouchers and a Sandy Plush Toy! NOW CLOSED

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To celebrate the new Annie Movie - (at Cinemas December 20), the team behind the film would love to hear all about your own personal real life hero.

The team behind Annie the movie says "If you've seen the film, you'll know Annie forms a strong bond with the Jamie Fox’s character, Will Stacks. Stacks believes he’s her guardian angel, but Annie’s self-assured nature and bright, sun-will-come-out-tomorrow outlook on life just might mean it’s the other way around.”

Check out the trailer here:

We'd love to hear about someone you know in real life (or even on MN) who has provided you with support, or does good things which help you or your family. This could be a neighbour, teacher, family member, friend or someone in a particular job.

You don't need to give their real name if you'd rather not. Please share your hero on this thread - everyone who does so will be entered into a prize draw where one MNer will win £150 worth of High Street vouchers and a Sandy Plush Toy.

Thanks and good luck

MNHQ

PS - check out the great 12 days of Christmas comp from Annie here

Have a great neighbour who helps me all the time nothing is ever too much trouble. She is a diamond!

Mil because she looks after everyone, even if it means she goes without things herself to help someone else. She never asks for anything in return. She is extremely kind hearted, generous and and the nicest lady I know.

I suffer with anxiety and refused to take medication to help me as I didn't want to admit I had mental health problems. My friend Emma, who had suffered with depression, made me realise I was not some nut job and that other people like myself suffer and that there is nothing to be ashamed about. I now take medication and feel like I have come out of the other side feeling better. I now admit my problems to people as I may be able to help them like Emma helped me.

My sister, who lives by her principles, even though it can be hard.

My best friend, I'm so lucky to have met her and I love her to bits.

My colleague, who is everything I aspire to be in my career. She's awesome.

my big sister, who is my best friend and aways there for me :)

My parents are mine, Even though I am 32, they still support me and my family. They helped us build our own home, helped us buy a car. I dont know what I would do with out them.

My mum is my hero. Since my XH walked out on me and DD then 4yo, she has been there for me and DD. She looks after her in the school holidays so that I can keep working, because XH won't have DD in the holidays. She babysits whenever required usually.

When XH left and I was a crying shaking mess, she was there for me, ringing me every day to make sure that I was OK.

I wouldn't have got through the past 2.5 years without her help.

My mum I was attacked in Turkey when I was 16 it was awful my mum was my best friend and stood by me with both my children my first I suffered pnd and wanted to die but she was my hero and helped me through it now I am a great mother as I've learnt from her and I adore my children x :-)

My Grandad. He looked after me a lot as a child. He was always positive and encouraged me to do things I never would have tried otherwise.

I can still remember him teaching me how to wash dishes properly.

My mum who very bravely fought her terminal cancer diagnosis at the age of 45. She selflessly worried about leaving me and my younger sisters and how we would cope.
I miss her terribly but she was and always will be my hero.

It has to be my mum. She literally goes to the ends of the earth for her children and grandchildren.

She flew to Malaysia for 5 days to meet my newborn son as we lived there at the time, then flew straight to Cairo to see my brother get married. To top it off she ran the London Marathon at 60 to raise money for her granddaughters charity. Totally inspiring!

My amazing mum! She does everything for me and supports me through all I do

My big sister. She supported me through my teenage years and all through my adult life when I've been struggling badly with depression and having two mental breakdowns. She was there for me when I split from my children's father, inviting me and the kids to her and her partners house for Christmas that year even though she was heavily pregnant, even driving up the hundred odd miles from Manchester to fife to pick us up and take us back down. When I had a breakdown just a few months after and my little ones went into temporary voluntary foster care for three weeks she supported me through it all and helped me get back up on my feet. She supported me through two pregnancy losses even while dealing with her own and has never ever said one bad word about my mental health or made me feel like I was a burden. My sister is the reason I am so much stronger, happier and independent today and finally able to live my life properly. She really does deserve a meddle, I have never met anyone as understanding and caring and loving, supportive and amazing as her. I don't know where I would be without her today, I just hope she knows how eternally greatful I am to her and how much I love her.

I also forgot the many hundreds of hours she's spent on the phone to me making sure I'm ok, listening to me crying down the line to her, offering to take my little ones for a holiday if I needed a break, giving me pep talks and letting me know that life gets better and I'm worth it.

My friend Kirsty. I'm not very close with a lot of my family and my OH works full time night shifts. I was recently ill and she came round during her week off work, to look after my kids because I wasn't able to do so. She takes me shopping sometimes if I want to go to a certain food shop, because I don't drive or can't afford the bus fare! She's an amazing help to me :)

My eldest son is my hero. Even in debt and living in the other side of the country, he's still thoughtful of me and his dad and makes sure we're lacking for nothing.

My friend who is raising her kids and her ex partners kids as if they were her own. Without her, they would have nobody. If I win, I'm not giving her the money, she'll not spend it on herself. I'm taking her shopping for stuff for her.

Just reading that made me cry. Some people are just amazing. I hope I would be if the situation arose.

My best friend. I would be lonely without him

My Dad has been there for me and helped me out of many fixes! And for my son too. He is just solidly supportive and calm, and non judgemental. He is also very cuddly!

My hubby is amazingly supportive & loving. I had a significant back injury recently & he does all the cooking, cleaning & looking after the kids. He's awesome!

My DH

He has gone way beyond his duty as my husband and one day I hope to be able to tell the story.

Some really lovely stories here. Those with great parents are so lucky.

My mum - but she doesn't even know it! (despite me telling her loads). We've lived apart since I was 13 - boarding school, the living in different countries. - and yet we have a super strong bond. She's the glue of the family.

My dad - I have learnt so much from my dad. He had been such a motivator in my life teaching me values of education, motivating me in my extra curricular activities and also is a compassionate person.

Being a bibliophile, he use to collect books saving them in his library and motivating me to do the same. He used to sit with me for hours in the public library, take me to second hand book stores, book fairs and to most book stores in my native place. Although I was not a book worm like him, I started to develop a kind of fondness for books by just being around him.

Although he sleeps late at night due to his work load, he used to get up early morning just for teaching me how to drive by taking me to the nearby airport road in my city everyday. He did not stop with it, he helped me to learn car driving too. He is also a compassionate person. Yes, I am proud to say that my dad is my real life hero :)