Premise: A young widowed mother moves back in with her folks and takes in an orphan - and more melodrama occurs.
Stars: Erin Cottrell * Dale Midkiff * Victor Browne
Story: Missie LaHaye (Cottrell) is back (it's part of a series of Hallmark TV movies based on novels by Janette Oke). After her husband and daughter die, she goes back to her folks (Midkiff) and tries to rediscover joy in her life. Along the way, she takes up teaching at the local school, adopts an orphan, gets embroiled in the rescue of another orphan from an abusive foster family, and falls in love with the town sheriff. And the sheriff (Browne) discovers God.
Review: It's full of Western-style melodrama - the young widow woman, the smiley-happy son, God-fearing people, a wounded horse that needs to be put down, discovering God through a miracle, runaways, tomboys being ridiculed and standing up for themselves, hard day labor for kids, the separated siblings who want their parents to rescue them, the bright-blue eyes, the hard rain, the hard men and the women that love them, the young man's man of a sheriff, etc. Lawdy.
With all of that, and the fact that it's a Hallmark TV movie and a Janette Oke adaptation, I have to wonder why I watched it.
Overall: Bad
Links: IMDb * Wikipedia
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