Love's Enduring Promise

2004 1h 28m EN

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★6.8TMDB · 81★7IMDB · 3,740

DramaRomanceWesternFamilyTV Movie

Synopsis

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In the 1800s frontier, Missie Davis is a bright and beautiful schoolteacher whose love for the prairie is matched only by her passion for books. When Missie encounters Grant, a handsome New England railroad executive, she feels as though she's met a hero from one of her novels.

“Some stories are better left unspoiled.”

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Cast

January Jones
Missie Davis
Logan Bartholomew
Willie LaHaye / Nate
Dale Midkiff
Clark Davis
Katherine Heigl
Marty Davis
Kesun Loder
Aaron Davis
Logan Arens
Arnie Davis
Mackenzie Astin
Grant Thomas
Cliff DeYoung
Zeke LaHaye

Credits

Behind the camera

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

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1 / 8

RUNTIME

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

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2 / 8

ERA

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Released 22 years ago.

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3 / 8

CINEMA

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

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4 / 8

DIRECTOR

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

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5 / 8

DIRECTOR

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

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6 / 8

CAST

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January Jones and Logan Bartholomew and Dale Midkiff carry the top of the cast.

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7 / 8

WILD

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IMDB entry: tt0402348 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.

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8 / 8

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Only 81 TMDB ratings — you're getting ahead of the curve on this one.

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Cinephile deep dive

The take

Michael Landon Jr. directs. Maximo Munzi behind the camera. Colleen Halsey cuts. Runs lean at under 100 minutes. Produced in United States of America. Dialogue in English.

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188 minutes exactly — the "classic feature" runtime most directors aim for.
2Released 22 years ago.
3Part of the "Love Comes Softly Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.
4Directed by Michael Landon Jr., shot by Maximo Munzi. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
5Editor Colleen Halsey shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
6January Jones and Logan Bartholomew and Dale Midkiff carry the top of the cast.
7IMDB entry: tt0402348 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
8Only 81 TMDB ratings — you're getting ahead of the curve on this one.

The technical file

Cinematography: Maximo Munzi
Editing: Colleen Halsey
Production design: Simona Ennas
Costume design: Bonnie Stauch
Makeup / hair: Michael Spezzano
Sound: Paul Ratajczak
Stunt coordinator: Clint Lilley
Runtime: 88 min · 1h 28m
Aspect ratio (typical): 1.37:1 (Academy)
Status: Released
Original language: EN
IMDB: Love's Enduring Promise (2004)
IMDB rating: 7/10 · 3,740 votes
MPAA: TV-PG

Awards

1 win & 2 nominations

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.

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Reno2015-11-24
★ 8/10
2. The story of Missie Davis: Finding a new life. The second movie in the Hallmark's 'Love Comes Softly' movie series. The story, the characters and a few casts continued from the first, but leaps forward to a few years where we can see the all grown up Missie. She's a school teacher who is living happily with her two younger brothers and parents. This was a good movie as well and well narrated without hurriedness like the first film that ran just under the 90 minutes. This is the Missie Davis story. The movie talks about her life as a young woman who encounters her love for the first time. What she expects from it and her experience in the style of between mid and late 1800s. It was not all about the romance, but some drama centers around an accident that happen at the beginning. In the other parallel string story of an another family, connect with the past events introduced a few characters of its own. Kind of depressing from the story narration to music, but in a good way. Rising from the tragedy and sorrow is the main theme. Like the story moved on to the next generation, the young cast as well performed very well. As the film concentrates around Missie, the involvement of other characters as well very compressed. Thus, looks like the minimal cast movie and the other reason is the most of the scenes were shot in the isolated places like having only two characters around. "Never despise meager beginning." I saw the loop, a circle, combining the first two films in the series. I mean this second movie's end was similar to where the first movie was began. That gave me some idea of what might have happened before the first film's commencement. It is only my guessing, who knows, in the next parts the truth could be revealed. As looking at the style of narration, there won't be any flashbacks, not in the pictures, maybe by the remembering the past. A very good follow-up, cleverly switched to another phase of the storytelling and by expanding, opens more window for the next parts. Slow pace and I'm not complaining that because I was expecting it. Being a television movie, it's given the overall best product. Now I can't wait for the third movie. Okay, goodbye then, I'll meet you in the next parts's review. 8/10

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