The Confession 2013

     This film is based on a novel by Beverly Lewis.  She is a New York Times best-selling author.  This is a continuation of the story told in the film The Shunning.  Katie Lapp has grown up in an Amish community and she missed meeting her birth mother when she came searching for her.  Katie has moved away from her adoptive parents and she calls numbers from the phone book every day looking for her mother.  She finally gets the right number but a man says her mother has passed away.  Katie knew her mother was ill, that was one of the reasons she was searching for Katie.  She is shocked and had been hoping her mother was still alive.

      In The Shunning film, Katie begins to wonder about her family and the rules that define her sheltered Amish life.  In The Confession, she takes steps to find out about her mother and a different life.  You wonder how her mother’s husband can be such a liar, a person without any feelings and so interested only in his own gain?  3 ½* (I liked this movie)

88 min, Drama directed by Michael Landon Jr. with Katie LeClerc, Julia Whelan, Sherry Stringfield, Cameron Deane Stewart, Adian Paul, Bill Oberst, Jr., Michael Rupnow.

Note:  Imdb 5.5 out of 10, 29% audience on Rotten Tomatoes.

Special Note:  This will probably be a trilogy with another movie to follow this one.  Because I had distance between the first and second movie, it didn’t bother me that the lead character is played by a different actress than the first film.