| Overall: | B |
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| Violence: | -- |
| Sexual Content: | -- |
| Language: | -- |
| Drugs/Alcohol: | -- |
| Run Time: | 699 |
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| Video Release: | 01 Dec 2009 |
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Based on Janette Oke’s best-selling novels, the DVD release of The Complete Love Comes Softly Collection offers all eight of the film adaptations that originally aired on The Hallmark Channel from 2003 to 2009. Created under the direction of filmmaker Michael Landon Jr, these faith-based stories feature the lives of three generations of women who face that challenges of pioneering the west with courage and Christian conviction.
Each of these made-for-TV movies has been available as single DVD releases, but now the entire set can be purchased in one package. The anthology includes the following titles:
Love Comes Softly
Original Release Date: 13 April 2003
MPAA Rating: Not Rated / Canada: PG
Screen Format: Side A: Widescreen / Side B: Full Screen
Total Run Time: 88 minutes
Following her husband’s untimely death on their journey west, Marty Claridge (Katherine Heigl) enters into a platonic marriage with Clark Davis (Dale Midkiff) that evolves into true love.
Love’s Enduring Promise
Original Release Date: 20 November 2004
MPAA Rating: Not Rated / Canada: PG
Screen Format: Full Screen
Total Run Time: 88 minutes
Marty’s daughter Missie (January Jones), a devoted schoolteacher, is torn between a railroad heir (Mackenzie Astin) and a mysterious stranger (Logan Bartholomew).
Love’s Long Journey (We have reviewed this title.)
Original Release Date: 3 December 2005
MPAA Rating: Not Rated / Canada: PG
Screen Format: Full Screen
Total Run Time: 88 minutes
Life changes forever when Missie (Erin Cottrell) discovers she is pregnant after she and Willie (Logan Bartholomew) leave the prairie forever.
Love’s Abiding Joy
Original Release Date: 2 January 2007
MPAA Rating: PG / Canada: PG
Screen Format: Side A: Widescreen / Side B: Fullscreen
Total Run Time: 88 minutes
A family tragedy interrupts the joyful reunion of Missie (Erin Cottrell) and her father Clark (Dale Midkiff).
Love’s Unending Legacy
Original Release Date: 4 December 2007
MPAA Rating: Not Rated / Canada: PG
Screen Format: Widescreen
Total Run Time: 84 minutes
A widowed Missie (Erin Cottrell) and her son return to her childhood home, where Missie adopts Belinda, a difficult teen, and finds love again.
Love’s Unfolding Dream
Original Release Date: 6 May 2008
MPAA Rating: Not Rated / Canada: PG
Screen Format: Widescreen
Total Run Time: 87 minutes
When Belinda (Scout Taylor-Compton) pursues her dream of becoming a doctor, she finds resistance within the male-dominated medical field and from her intended!
Love Takes Wing
Original Release Date: 5 May 2009
MPAA Rating: Not Rated / Canada: PG
Screen Format: Widescreen
Total Run Time: 88 minutes
Physician Belinda Simpson’s (Sarah Jones) faith is tested as she tries to convince small-town Missourians that a local orphanage is not the source of a pandemic.
Love Finds A Home
Original Release Date: 10 November 2009
MPAA Rating: Not Rated / Canada: PG
Screen Format: Widescreen
Total Run Time: 88 minutes
When Belinda’s (Sarah Jones) pregnant friend (Haylie Duff) and her meddlesome mother-in-law (Patty Duke) come to visit, Belinda reevaluates everything she holds dear.
Love Comes Softly The Complete Collection is rated Not Rated:
Cast: Katherine Heigl, Dale Midkiff, January Jones, Logan Bartholomew, Erin Cottrell, Scout Taylor-Compton, Sarah Jones, Haylie Duff.
Studio: 2009 Twentieth Century Fox
Website: Official site for Love Comes Softly The Complete Collection.
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