Love Finds a Home 2009

      This film is based on a book by Janette One.  Dr. Annie Watson is pregnant and she is going to stay with her best friend, Dr. Belinda Owens.  Her husband Peter is off on a surveying job.  Annie's mother-in-law Mary is a seen-it-all midwife but her homeopathic remedies and folksy wisdom are at odds with Belinda's scientific knowledge.  As Belinda deals with the headaches Mary is causing, she must also address issues at home.  Her adopted daughter Lillian, is discovering the joys and pains of first love.  Belinda and her husband Lee, find their own relationship suffering over Belinda's inability to get pregnant.  Just as the town has learned to put its faith in Belinda as their doctor, Belinda must learn to accept that the best guidance for her own problems may come from unlikely sources.  Annie gives birth to a daughter, Melinda (Lindy) and the movie ends with Mary hopping into a buggy to leave with Belinda whispering something in her ear.  When her husband asks what she said to Mary, the answer is: "Oh, I just told her that I'll need a midwife!!

     This story is a collection of recycled inspirational frontier scenes and incidents interspersed with discussions on medical language.  There are many disjointed subplots thrown together.  The movie hops from one thing to the next without creating a common theme or giving the audience a reason to keep watching.  The dialogue is straightforward and but not compelling and the characters are cardboard people.  A lot of things happen and they get resolved just in time for the movie to be over.  It stutters to an inevitable conclusion that leaves the viewer wondering what happened to this movie saga that previously had such great potential?  3 1/2* (I did liked his movie)

      

88 min, Drama directed by David S. Cass Sr and writer by Donald Davenport, Janette One and Stepeh Never with Sarah Jones, Haylie Duff, Jordan Bridges, Patty Duke, Courtney Halverson, Michael Trevino, Jeffrey Muller, Dahlia Salem, Thomas Kopache, Chad W. Smathers, Daniel Beer, Jeff Clarke, Jen Gnetile.

Note:  Imdb 6.9* out of 10* with 975 reviews, Rotten Tomatoes 73% with 250+ audience scores, dove.org 1* sex, violence, drugs and a woman is having a baby and the father is worried about the baby growing up.  Amazon 4.8* out of 5* with 387 reviews, boxofficerevolution.wordpress.com 2.5 out of 10 points.

Special Note:  Love Finds a Home is the eighth TV movie based on Janette Oke's Love Comes Softly series.  Sarah Jones and Courtney Halverson both had recurring roles on HBO's Big Love.

Mistakes:  The house where Mr. and Dr. Owens live is the same one Dr. Jackson lives in and he uses it as a clinic in "Loves Unfolding Dream".  The house is in  Andersons Corner and the Owens live in Sikeston.  When Annie and her husband leave their home, they have their own wagon.  When they return at the end of the movie, they take the stagecoach and the wagon is nowhere to be found?  The pennies Mrs. McQueen gave to Lillian at Belinda's office have an image of the Lincoln Memorial on them.  The Lincoln Memorial did not appear on pennies until 1959.  When Annie hands her baby to her husband while getting on the stage coach at the end of the film, the blanket around the baby is not pulled up to cover the face of the baby and it reveals a baby doll's face.