Rose Hill (film)

"Rose Hill" is a 1997 Hallmark film about four Boston street urchins who adopt a young infant that they discovered in a wagon that they used to make their escape from the police in Boston, whom they named Mary Rose. The five become a family and move to Blue Belle, Montana as soon as they have made enough money working. They take with them Annie, a faithful servant who worked with Mary Rose when she was younger. In Blue Belle, Mary Rose and her four brothers (Cole, Adam, Travis, Douglas) have a free-range cattle farm by the name of Rose Hill near a lake. She meets John Stringer, a man who lifts her off her feet. However, Stringer is a cattle rustler who ends up killing her brother, Cole Clayborne. This does not happen in Julie's books. At the age of nineteen, Mary Rose leaves Rose Hill and goes back to Boston to find her real family and meets her father, Richard Elliot. However, during her time away, both Travis and Douglas have left Rose Hill. Shining Water becomes pregnant, and Adam becomes ill. In Boston, she discovers that she is really Victoria Elliott. However, she does not stay in Boston long because of Adam's deteriorating health. Fergus Carroll, her neighbor in Rose Hill, calls upon her. It is then that she returns to Rose Hill and fixes up the farm with the help of her two brothers. At the end of the film, it is implied that Adam lives to see his child and that Mary Rose and Fergus get married.

Julie Garwood's novels are entitled "From the Roses", the beginning of the Claybornes' trials. Next is "The Clayborne Brides", a series of three novels that portrays the trials and tribulations of Douglas Clayborne, Adam Clayborne, and Travis Clayborne. The last book in the series is "Come the Spring", a novel that tells the story of Cole Clayborne.

The movie stars Jennifer Garner as Mary Rose Clayborne, Justin Chambers as Cole Clayborne, Jeffrey D. Sams as Adam Clayborne, Zak Orth as Douglas Clayborne, and Tristan Tait as Travis Clayborne.

External links

*imdb title|id=0117515|title=Rose Hill