Love Comes Softly
by Michael Landon Jr.
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Actor: Corbin Bernsen, Dale Midkiff, Katherine Heigl, Skye McCole Bartusiak, Theresa RussellDirector: Michael Landon Jr.
Brand: HEIGL,KATHERINE
Writer: Michael Landon Jr.
Producer: Brian Gordon
Producer: Faye Schwab
Producer: H. Daniel Gross
Producer: Kevin Bocarde
Writer: Cindy Kelley
Writer: Janette Oke
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 84 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-09-14
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Movie Reviews of Love Comes Softly
Movie Review: Endearing but Too Religiously Preachy
Summary: 4 Stars
Endearing film and the starter to the equally endearing Love... series.
Be forewarned that this series is faith-based, replete with a heavy emphasis on Christian beliefs. I wasn't aware of this before I watched; although, 'written by Michael Landon, Jr.' should have been a tipoff to me. So if you are not religious you may find the repeated references to God, bible, and religion tough to take. Several times I utilized my fast forward button to get me through some of the more over-the-top preachy dialogue.
But putting religion aside, the movie's wholesome focus on love and family is refreshing. So much of our society is sex and violence centric. It is refreshing to take a look back at how life used to be before our society became uncontrollably warped by the crudeness of drugs, greed and lust. It makes me almost willing to give up modern conveniences if we could go back to life as it was back then-- minus the social injustices suffered by women and ethnic groups.
Summary of Love Comes Softly
Based on Janette Oke's best-selling book series, and directed by Michael Landon Jr., Loves Comes Softly is inspired story-telling for the whole family. Marty and Aaron Claridge (Katherine Heigl and Oliver Macready) travel west in search of new opportunity. But when tragedy strikes and Marty is suddenly widowed, the young woman must face the rugged terrain, bleak weather, and life among strangers-alone. That is until a handsome widower named Clark Davis ( Dale Midkiff) suggests a platonic "marriage of convenience" until Marty can return home. As the months pass, through, Marty and Clark discover an unexpected new love where there was once only loss.Writer/director Michael Landon Jr. continues in his famous father's footsteps by creating moral family entertainment set in the early days of the American prairie. Stubborn Marty Claridge (Katherine Heigl, Grey's Anatomy) travels west with her new husband--but after they find a beautiful patch of land, her husband dies in an accident before they've even started building. A man named Clark (Dale Midkiff, Air Bud: World Pup) makes a proposal: If Marty will enter into a platonic marriage with him, he'll pay for her passage back east in the spring. What Clark needs is a mother, however temporary, for his willful tomboy daughter Missie (Skye McCole Bartusiak, Beyond the Prairie, Part 2). Missie fights Marty's presence fiercely while Clark, though supportive, speaks few words, and Marty suspects she's made a terrible mistake--but time reveals otherwise. Love Comes Softly, based on the popular Christian novel by Janette Oke, is a romance, but Landon carefully avoids any bodice-ripping histrionics. Problems get solved perhaps a little too easily, but the movie is cleanly written, pleasantly understated, and respectful to its characters. For many viewers, Love Comes Softly will be a welcome change from overheated secular love stories. --Bret Fetzer
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