Love's Long Journey Reviews

• excellent movie though most inaccurate of the three movies that have been made!

  
  By A3TSJ9KDY18X1L on 2006-01-28
  Out of the three Love Comes Softly movies made, this one is my most favorite. Very touching, but most inaccurate from the original book by Jannette Oke. Neitherless I enjoyed it!
  After 2 years of marriage, Missie and Willie have arrived at the land where they are to establish a home/ranch. While Willie goes off to find some ranchhands, Missie befriends her Native American neighbor Miriam who is a blessing from God b/c Missie is pregnant and w/out a doctor around. The story also focuses upon these 3 mysterious men who seem to be gangsters. Later on they discover that there is money hidden somehwere on Misse and Willie's ranch. They hold everyone hostage while searching out for the money. How will Missie and Willie handle this? Well just watch it and you'll find out! :-D
  If you have read the book there are TONS of differences. The first half of the book focuses upon their journey on the trail while in the movie they have arrived at their destination within the first 10 minutes. Missie gave birth in a little city Willie left her at in the book and she names the baby Nathan not Matthew like she did in the movie. And Miriram does not exist in the book. The little boy who they adopted, and the 3 gangsters were not present in the book either I believe. To me they made most of the movie's plot up, while keeping some elements from the book--God's faithfulness, love, and I love the last line from the movie Missie says--"To everything there is a season, and a time for every purpose under heaven."
  All in all I reccommend the movie to fans of the Little House on the Praire series and the Love Comes Softly book series by the amazing Janette Oke. Go read the book if you never had...it is truly beautiful.
  Love's Abiding Joy, the 4th book in the series is in the works right now of being produced into a movie. It will premiere later this year and I am looking very forward to it! :-D
  
  

• "For Everything There is a Season"

  
  By AQ8DU6XVA3USJ on 2006-04-26
  Based on Jeanette Oke's "Love Comes Softly" series, which has sold over 30 million copies, "Love's Long Journey" is the 3rd installment, and is a charming period piece about Missie and Willie LaHaye, going west to start a ranch, build a home, and have a family of their own. This is mellow filmmaking, with a peaceful ambiance, and an occasional dramatic sequence. A Christian theme flows through the plot line, and the film makes excellent family viewing. Those who are used to "blow 'em up" fare will find the film slow, others will find it refreshing.
  
  Missy is a gentle woman, and also a natural tomboy, who knows how to shoot a lot better than she can make an edible biscuit, but she learns how to cook from an older cowhand (Frank McRae, endearing as Cookie), and her toughness comes in handy when dealing with some unsavory characters.
  
  Directed by Michael Landon Jr., who also had a hand in the script, the cast is wonderful, with Erin Cottrell as Missy, and Logan Bartholomew as Willie, with John Savage as leader of a trio of bad guys, and Graham Phillips delightful as the young boy Jeff. Irene Bedard is exceptionally beautiful as the LaHaye's Native American neighbor, Miriam. Shot on location in some scenic locations like Big Sky Ranch in Ventura County, California, the cinematography by Brian Shanley is lovely, with endless panoramas and a feeling of how life was in a past era.
  
  "Love's Long Jouney" is an above average television production, and I'm looking forward to the next film in the series, "Love's Abiding Joy," which is presently in post-production. As Missy quotes from Ecclesiastes in the film, "For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven," and the saga of this family is heartwarming as well as fine entertainment.
  
  
  

• Wonderful Movie for the Whole Family

  
  By A10K7F6KMD5V4S on 2006-02-10
  This is the 3rd movie in the Love Comes Softly series. It is absolutely wonderful. Every time any of the movies are on the Hallmark channel, my husband and I drop everything to watch them. I highly recommend all three movies. They are heart-warming stories that make you feel good inside.
  
  

• Love it

  
  By on 2006-02-04
  I saw this movie on TV and loved it.This is a great movie for the family and a fun one to.It is a feel good movie
  
  

• They don't make 'm like this any more!

  
  By AFM31YLSK7XZX on 2006-03-15
  This was a great movie! My family and kids enjoyed it much. Faith in God! Morals! Clear cut good vs. evil! with..the good guys winning!
  Yep...They don't make'm like this any more. Thanks for a great old fashion movie and series! If your a square like us you'll love it!
  
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• Loves Long Journey
  By A37QK1K4ZN6MHI on 2005-12-30
  Loved It! Glad to see decent wholesome movies and can't wait to get this so I can watch it without commercials!
  
  
• The Best family friendly show I have seen in years
  By A3BV01JK03JRT5 on 2006-03-09
  I have seen all the prievious movies in the series and have read some of the books. This show is a good wholesome film that the whole family can watch. When I watch these films I often look back to the show Little House on the prairie. I find that these movies are a modern take on Littlehouse on the prairie. These are one of my faverite movies so I give it a five star.
  
  
• Family-friendly continuation of the saga of Missie & Willie LaHaye!
  By A2L6QS8SVHT9RG on 2006-07-22
  I bought this film recently on DVD, and thought it was a good family-friendly film, very inspired! (I loved the first two as well, "Love Comes Softly" and "Love's Enduring Promise") Based on a novel by best-selling Christian fiction write Janette Oke, "Love's Long Journey," is a heart-warming continuation of the story of Missie & William LaHaye (newly married). This movie is based on the third book in the series. There is a switch of the actress playing Missie (January Jones is noticeably absent), but newcomer-to-the-series Erin Cottrell does a fine job as Missie (she had me convinced by the end that she WAS Missie); this movie is also not quite accurate to the book, but is so well-told overall, that it stands quite well on its own as a film & continuation of the series.
  
  Missie & Willie LaHaye, newly married, encounter quite a few adventures, both on their journey West & in settling their new homestead! From Indians (Native Americans) to rustlers & outlaws, they must perservere to establish their new ranch & keep it running. And to add to the drama, Missie becomes pregnant and is miles from the closest doctor: will this brave couple be able to overcome the obstacles in their way?!?
  
  For those of you worried about content, this is a clean film! There is no language that I can recall; there is some tense situations with Indians & again with some outlaws, but overall it is very family-friendly, and content is not going to be an issue.
  
  This is a wonderful, family-friendly story that promotes good values of love, honor, courage, faith, forgiveness, and much more! Highly recommended as a break from the typical Hollywood fare: this is wholesome family fun!
  
  
• not as good as the other two
  By A2W792063F4EUD on 2006-04-27
  The first two movies in this series were far better than this one. The acting is horrible (especially by Erin Cotrell). I hope she took the money she made from this film and bought some acting classes with it. Overall, I was really disappointed with this film, considering that the first two were excellent.
  
  
• Finally a TALENTED ACTRESS !!!
  By A2NA572KQF9H63 on 2006-06-12
  Anyone who has lamented the absence of January Jones (for even a second) is quite possibly insane. The performance delivered by Ms. Cottrell was excellent. Because it was just THAT: a performance. January Jones vapidly stood in front of the camera like the proverbial deer in headlights. I think that if they are to continue making movies from this book series, bringing on Erin Cottrell to lead the cast was an excellent choice. Bravo to Erin and the rest of the cast.
  
  
• Loves Long Journey
  By ADDB4TK2SMKAM on 2006-08-27
  Very good story,need to see or read all three in series Love Comes Softly, Loves Enduring Promise, and Loves Long Journey in that order to really get the story line and the feel of what is going on. Very good story about those times and what people had to deal with and a good love story.
  
  
• NOTHING like the book
  By A38K5ZPC8CA85M on 2006-09-13
  The only things right about this movie is that Willie and Missie went west, the fact that Missie was pregnant, and the names of 3 cowhands. The rest of the movie is wrong from beginning to end, the book contained no bad guys obsessed with stealing from Willie, and they did not adopt any half-grown children, nor was their baby named after Willie's dead little brother because there was no such character in the book! It is FALSE to claim this movie is based on a best-selling book, it's based so loosely on the original story that there's no connection.
  
  
• OUTSTANDING
  By A3AIUC6UOS595N on 2006-03-21
  MOVING.GREAT DIRECTION AND ACTING.WONDERFUL CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT.ONE OF THE BEST MOVIES I'VE SEEN IN YEARS.
  ERIN COTTRELL AS MISSY IS PERFECT AS IS LOGAN BARTHOLOMEW AS NATE.
  
  
• Memories of Little House...
  By AHDTU8DUSFY35 on 2006-04-21
  I absolutely love all three of these films! These movies take us back to a time in our lives when things were still pure and simple and it was the little things that mattered. I whole heartedly encourage you to buy these DVD's and watch them with your kids...it may be the only decent and moral thing they watch on T.V. tonight! If you loved Little House as a kid these movies will welcome you right back to good ol' Walnut Grove! I personally have not read Ms. Oake's books so I can't speak to how the movies compare to the actual storylines, but I can say for certain that even if you haven't read them, you will very much enjoy the movies. They are all fantastic!
  
  
• Great movie to follow the first 2 in this series!
  By A3771RPCWLFDA5 on 2006-05-13
  I thought this movie was great, as well as the first 2 in this series. I enjoyed seeing "Willie and Missy" homestead and the hard times that can come with "real life." They had good times and bad times, just like real families do. But, they stick together through thick and thin. They invite others into their home and treat them like family. It's a great picture of how God "adopts" us, His children. I would definitely recommend renting this movie, if not adding it to your DVD collection.
  
  
• Where is January Jones?
  By A3HCVAZ6W1GCOP on 2006-05-29
  I miss January Jones. If you read the book you will see why for she brought the Missie I read in the book. What also dissapointed me is the inaccuracy of the movie and the notion that Missie can't COOK. I believe any daughter of Marty could cook very well and since she could make corn bread pudding and fried chicken (In the first two she mentions she can make them) I believe she wouldn't burn biscuts. Erin I believe is a okay actress but I really REALLY perfer January Jones. I hope if they make Love's Abiding Joy that they would use JANUARY JONES.
  This movie is okay for renting or buying for it is a okay movie but wouldn't make a good sequal to the Love Comes Softly series.
  
  
• A Delightful & Edifying Tale
  By A1CZQCAECEIYJ on 2006-07-10
  This latest screen version of Janette Oke's stories presents a beautiful and believable portrayal of Christian virtue in real life. A strong sub-theme of racial inclusiveness as what should be part of authentic Christian belief and practice, adds great value to this story. Our family opted out of network television and cable years ago and have chosen to order quality dvd series. This movie, along with the previous releases are excellent. I especially appreciate that the Christian witness is clear but not delivered with sledgehammer blows. Persons are "won over" subtley and embraced with Christ-like grace and love long before they make their own personal discovery of redemptive grace. Conversion, in these movies, does not follow a predictable "born again" model, but clearly people's lives are changed. A telling line in the movie is when one of the older hands says (and I can only roughly paraphrase), "If what they believe makes them act like they do, then maybe they deserve a hearing."
  I enthusiastically recommend these movies to anyone. For me and my house, Love's Long Journey is a delightful and edifying tale. It well fills the prescription in Philippians 4:8. "...whatever things are true, whatever things are noble, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, ... meditate on these things." (NKJV)
  
  
• Excellent all the way
  By A3DWENW34NQEAV on 2006-09-24
  Lovely. It's a sweet story with danger, humor, and regular life struggles crashing to a head in the end. Janette Oke's books are always lovely, but seeing them come alive visually is always a treat too.
  
  
  
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  By AJ0IE58GN8BVV on 2007-02-06
  These are great movies once you seen one you have to see them all. I loved them so much I had to have them all.
  
  
• we're confused
  By AACLYOKXRGWN1 on 2006-03-15
  We are confused. There seem to be 2 versions of this movie being advertised...one with the old Missy on the cover and one with the new Missy. Are they two different movies? We watched the one on Hallmark, with the new Missy, so can't understand why there also seems to be one with the old Missy. Can anyone explain?
  
  
• Excellent/Fantastic!
  By A15VAO27M2YR4R on 2006-04-07
  I was also confused about the two different DVD covers that are being sold with this movie, and to answer an earlier question: No, January Jones (the old Missy) isn't in Love's Long Journey, no matter the cover picture.
  
  I was disappointed that she was not in it since she did a fantastic job in Love's Enduring Promise, but I still give this movie 5 stars because all three of these movies are my favorites. Erin Cottrell did a fine job acting as Missy, and I can't wait to see more when they are made. I am going to purchase the books also-because the book is always better! :)
  
  
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  By A2LGUDH9QV1FF7 on 2006-07-14
  This is a family-friendly movie, enjoyable for children as well as adults. While the plot is very unlike the book, the story line is good. I would recommend reading the book series first, then watching the movies in order(Love Comes Softly, Love's Enduring Promise, Love's Long Journey).
  
  
• LOVES LONG JOURNEY
  By A23NUEAYM5YL78 on 2006-07-24
  I REALLY ENJOYED THIS MOVIE BECAUSE IT IS CHRISTIAN BASED AND IT TELLS OF THE HARDSHIPS THAT PEOPLE WENT THROUGH AT THAT TIME. IT HAD SOME FUNNY PARTS BUT IT WAS HEART TOUCHING IN OTHERS. I WOULD RECOMMEND THIS MOVE TO ANYBODY AND HAVE ALREADY TO SEVERAL PEOPLE.
  
  
• Love's Long Journey
  By A1S1ZL93P4CE2 on 2006-08-31
  I really love this movie series! If you enjoy Little House on Prairie series then you will love this movie and the others--Love Comes Softly and Love's Enduring Promise!!! I cannot wait until Love's Abiding Joy is released.
  
  
• Not as good as the first two.
  By A2AP1BN2BKVRUR on 2006-10-29
  I love the movies "Love Comes Softly" and "Love's Enduring Promise". This movie is merely ok. There is a new actress playing Missy, and I did not like her nearly as much. That role is just made for January Jones, she did such a great job as Missy in LEP, and wow what chemistry she had with Logan Bartholemew ("Willie"). This new actress is ok but she smiles too much, and she overacts sometimes. She even smiles when she's crying. Sometimes I think she even gets on "Willie's" nerves. Another thing I didn't like is that this movie takes a bit more of a feminist tone. Call me old fashioned but I just didn't care for it. It's still an ok movie but I'm glad I rented it instead of buying it!
  
  
• Love's Long Journey
  By A25E8V5JMW43RY on 2007-01-22
  A wonderful, old fashioned love story.. Great if you love these kinds of movies!
  
  
• Loves Long Journey
  By A1U1OPXB8A4AKD on 2007-03-12
  This DVD is excellent for all ages to watch. It is a heart warming story that everyone should watch. The books that these DVD are based on are great also.
  
  
• Good, but not Oke's Classic...
  By ANEDXRFDZDL18 on 2006-04-10
  Love's Long Journey is supposedly a 'remake' of Oke's classic novel set on the frontier, but the only thing which even resembles the novel is the title. (Given the quality of writing in Love's Long Journey, that is not necessarily a bad thing). The novel centers around Missie's homesickness, her alienation from Willie, and her struggles to accept ranching given her farming background. The journey is long and Willie's dream demands Missie sacrifice much. To be honest, I didn't care for the novel. Most modern women would find the tale of Missie endlessly sacrificing for her 'man' and enduring every hardship possible to be a little much.
  
  Enter the Hallmark (movie) version. Add half a dozen characters, a Native-American neighbor, a plucky orphan, and re-write missy to be another dumb white-chick who can't cook, (ridiculous that any woman from those days, would not be able to cook) and you have another trite but passible film. Thank heaven we do not have to endure much of Dale Midkiff (Clark's) aping at the camera and that Missie's husband is at least handsome....
  
  Personally, if the screenwriter felt the need to rewrite the original material to such a degree (and not saying I blame him, the original book wasn't her best), why not call it something else? This is *Not* Oke's' work. Really. The story is good. Perhaps better even. But its *Not* Love's Long Journey. Sorry guys.
  
  3 Stars. Entertainingly cliche.
  
  
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  By A2XYWYMKTB4CL7 on 2006-06-29
  The book was an excellent story with a moral baseline. The depection of the old west was very accurate in my opinion and the story line was outstanding. I have all three in the series and hope there will be more coming. My daughters and I have all read all the books in the series and truly enjoy each and every one.
  
  
• Great Movie for Families
  By A3TIK9W9F3NBJU on 2006-07-06
  This movie is a great movie to sit and watch with your family. The courage shown and the faith exhibited speaks volumes to our children about trusting God in all things. I would recommend this movie to everyone.
  
  

• Love's Enduring Promise
• Love's Abiding Joy
• Love Comes Softly
• Love's Unending Legacy
• Love's Unfolding Dream