Love's Long Journey

2005 1h 28m EN

👍

7.0

SOLID

★7.0TMDB · 51

DramaRomanceWesternFamilyTV Movie

Synopsis

Spoiler shield

Missie's surprise pregnancy sets her on a new course that is both thrilling and terrifying. After all the planning and dreaming, she and her husband Willie are headed west in a covered wagon, leaving behind the prairie home of Missie's parents. Now, caught between the excitement of the new adventure and the pain of not knowing when she'll see her family again, Missie copes with the challenges, and cherishes the rewards, of her new homestead.

“Some stories are better left unspoiled.”

WhatsApp X Facebook Telegram

Where to watch · US

UP Faith & Family Apple TV channelSubscription

PixL Amazon ChannelSubscription

UP Faith & Family Amazon Channel Subscription

Cast

Erin Cottrell
Missie LaHaye
Logan Bartholomew
Willie LaHaye
William Morgan Sheppard
Scottie
Dale Midkiff
Clark Davis
James Tupper
Henry
Frank McRae
Cookie
Johann Urb
Fyn Anders
John Savage
Trent

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Michael Landon Jr.
Languages: English
Countries: United States of America

Want more? Switch to Cinephile mode in the header for DP, composer, budget, box office, production companies, keywords, and release history.

Did you know?

Fun facts 🍿

1 / 8

RUNTIME

Did you know

88 minutes exactly — the "classic feature" runtime most directors aim for.

MoodPlayr · trivia#01

2 / 8

ERA

Did you know

Released 21 years ago.

MoodPlayr · trivia#02

3 / 8

CINEMA

Did you know

Part of the "Love Comes Softly Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.

MoodPlayr · trivia#03

4 / 8

DIRECTOR

Did you know

Directed by Michael Landon Jr., shot by Brian Shanley. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.

MoodPlayr · trivia#04

5 / 8

DIRECTOR

Did you know

Original score by Kevin Kiner. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.

MoodPlayr · trivia#05

6 / 8

DIRECTOR

Did you know

Editor Andrew Vona shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.

MoodPlayr · trivia#06

7 / 8

CAST

Did you know

Erin Cottrell and Logan Bartholomew and William Morgan Sheppard carry the top of the cast.

MoodPlayr · trivia#07

8 / 8

WILD

Did you know

IMDB entry: tt0486420 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.

MoodPlayr · trivia#08

Cinephile deep dive

The take

Michael Landon Jr. directs. Brian Shanley behind the camera. Kevin Kiner scores. Andrew Vona cuts. Runs lean at under 100 minutes. Produced in United States of America. Dialogue in English.

Trivia

Things worth knowing

188 minutes exactly — the "classic feature" runtime most directors aim for.
2Released 21 years ago.
3Part of the "Love Comes Softly Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.
4Directed by Michael Landon Jr., shot by Brian Shanley. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
5Original score by Kevin Kiner. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.
6Editor Andrew Vona shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
7Erin Cottrell and Logan Bartholomew and William Morgan Sheppard carry the top of the cast.
8IMDB entry: tt0486420 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
9Only 51 TMDB ratings — you're getting ahead of the curve on this one.

The technical file

Cinematography: Brian Shanley
Original score: Kevin Kiner
Editing: Andrew Vona
Production design: Niko Vilaivongs
Costume design: Darragh Marmorstein
Makeup / hair: Shay Sanford-Fong
Stunt coordinator: Sonny Tipton
Runtime: 88 min · 1h 28m
Aspect ratio (typical): 1.37:1 (Academy)
Status: Released
Original language: EN
IMDB: Love's Long Journey (2005)

Part of

Love Comes Softly Collection

A Christian drama television movie set in the 19th century, based on a series of books by Janette Oke.

Also by

Michael Landon Jr.

Stills · wallpapers

Selected frames

Full-resolution frames — open one to save it as a wallpaper.

Wallpaper

Community reviews

What people are saying

Reno2015-11-24
★ 7/10
4. The stories of Missie and Jeff: The struggles and the first love. The fourth movie in the Hallmark's 'Love Comes Softly' movie series. It continued a few years after where the previous one ended. LaHaye family comfortably settled down running a ranch in the wild west and Missie is now a full time teacher in a local school. This story apprises the struggles and introduces a proper villain for the first time in this series. Unlike the title, the story travels in the opposite direction. Time to test your faith in this series. If you manage to get through, you would continue or feel tediousness. Hold on, I did not say the movie was good as the previous ones. Until now I had not seen a substandard in the series. Maybe the word 'substandard' is very rude. It can be explained in another way as well like the story considerably focuses on the misery side of the LaHaye family. Missie's father came a long way to spend time her and his grandchildren. But then the visit came at a wrong time, especially the entire region is suffering from the drought. The troubles only extends without a sign of ending. Some of the LaHaye's family friends living in their worst nightmare. "The only thing we both want... We won't ever see again." In a parallel layered narration, Jess is near the 20 or something and he tastes his first love. Not without the obstacles. Because the girl who is associated with him is from highly influenced family in the town. It was a pretty good romance track, deserved to be told as one side his family is grieving and other hand his (Jeff's) own struggle. Sad faces are seen everywhere and I'm happy it is not all about the happiness, though there are sad narrations as well in the series. So, it was the story composition intensely created that way to display. But the viewers are not thinking about the possibilities of what a family could go through in a such situation. Rather, they are pointing out the movie as a downfall, not the story that talks about the downfall. That is why the whole film looks grim and depressing, only if you did not get it. Anyway, it is a long movie series and all kinds of mood, genre, theme of the tales are expected in the each film. I believe the next one would get better and that's what I'm thinking right now. 7/10

Production companies