In the family-entertainment tradition of his multi-talented father Michael Landon, writer/director Michael Landon Jr. offered this made-for-cable frontier drama, adapted from a novel by Janet Oke. En route to her new home in the West, Marty Claridge (Katherine Heigl) suddenly finds herself a widow, with no roof over her head or means to support herself. At the gentle prodding of her settler friends Ben and Sarah Graham (Corbin Bernsen, Theresa Russell), Marty accepts the marriage proposal of taciturn widower Clark Davis (Dale Midkiff). It is strictly a business arrangement, with no romance or cohabitation involved; Marty will act as housekeeper to Davis and as teacher and surrogate mother for Clark's sullen nine-year-old daughter Missy (Skye McCole Bartusiak), and in return she will receive food and lodging. Pragmatists both, Marty and Clark assume that they will dissolve their marriage of convenience when the spring thaw comes...but that isn't how things turn out. Love Comes Softly first aired April 13, 2003, on the Hallmark Channel.
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Best of the lot
on July 29, 2008
Posted by: RealisticFather
from Phoenix, Az
In my opinion the best of the 5 movies to date, which if you think about it, that is the way you sould start of a movie collection.
The third chapter from popular novelist Janette Oke's Love Comes Softly series of books arrives on the screen in a wondrous tale of new frontiers starring Erin Cottrell and Logan Bartholomew. Missie (Cottrell) is pregnant, and it's time that her and husband Willie (Bartholomew) strike out on their own and begin life anew. With their wagon packed full and a plan to make a home for themselves in the west, Missie and Willie say goodbye to Missie's parents and set out on the adventure of a lifetime.
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5
Awsome Movie
on July 29, 2008
Posted by: RealisticFather
from Phoenix, Az
It is a great, inspiring story. Highly recommened for families, and the closet romantics. If you can handle a good chick flick buy it!