Love Comes Softly

Infobox TV film
name = Love Comes Softly


caption =
format = Christian drama
runtime = 88 min
director = Michael Landon Jr.
producer = Kevin Bocarde
Kyle Clark
writer = Cindy Kelly
Michael Landon Jr.
Janette Oke
starring = Katherine Heigl
Dale Midkiff
Skye McCole Bartusiak
Corbin Bernsen
Theresa Russell
editing = Colleen Halsey
music = William Ashford
Ken Thorne
country = USA
language = English
network = Hallmark Channel
released = April 13 2003
preceded_by =
followed_by = Love's Enduring Promise
imdb_id = 0345591
amg_id = 1:284806

"Love Comes Softly" is a 2003 Christian drama TV movie set in the 1800s, based on a series of books by Janette Oke. It originally aired on Hallmark Channel in 2003. It was directed by Michael Landon Jr., and stars Katherine Heigl as a young woman named Marty Claridge. Sequels include "Love's Enduring Promise" (2004), "Love's Long Journey" (2005), "Love's Abiding Joy" (2006), "Love's Unending Legacy" (2007), "Love's Unfolding Dream" (released for tv Dec 07), and "Love Takes Wing" is set to air in 2009.

Plot

Marty Claridge (Katherine Heigl) has just moved out to the West with her husband Aaron Claridge (Oliver Macready), who dies shortly after. With no other options, she accepts the arrangement offered by widower Clark Davis (Dale Midkiff), who offers her a place to stay for the winter and provides her with the fare for the wagon train heading back East in the spring. In exchange, he wants her to provide a maternal influence for his young daughter Missie (Skye McCole Bartusiak). Marty, while expecting her late husband's baby, is even more in need of a warm place to stay. Still, it is not an ideal arrangement for any of them, and at first Marty and Missie do not get along. Marty learns more about "Clark's God" than she ever dreamed, and as the Winter season passes, they all start to feel more like a family, and finally Marty and Clark come to realize they're in love.

Cast

External links

*imdb title|id=0345591|title=Love Comes Softly
*" [http://www.movietome.com/movietome/servlet/MovieMain/movieid-68535/ Love Comes Softly] " at Movie Tome
*" [http://www.hallmarkchannel.com/publish/consumer/home/shows/love_comes_softly.html/ Love Comes Softly] " at Hallmark Channel
*allmovie|1:284806