Love Comes Softly The Complete Collection Parent Guide

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.

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