Love's Unfolding Dream

F. Parker
I have watched this and all of the other movies in this extraordinary series. They are all very family oriented, have no profanity and violence kept to a minimum. My young grand children can view these movies as they present a view of family, faith and loyalty as few others do. The characters and acting is superb. I recommend this and others in the Love Comes Softly series to anyone desiring good, clean, healthy, viewer friendy entertainment. Thank you Hallmark for your continued excellence in presenting family movies.

Comparable to "Love Comes Softly"
There are now six films in the "Love" series, Love's Unfolding Dream being the only one to capture the power and passion of the original movie "love Comes Softly". In Love's Enduring Promise, there was a triangle romance. Grant Thomas, as everyone but Missy could see from the beginning, was a spoiled rich kid looking for a sophisticated Mrs. to complete his image, so there was nothing but to wait and see how Willie would end up stealing her heart. Another actress replaced January Jones as Missy in the next movie, Love's Long Journey. The chemistry between the lead actors was not the same, and attempts to restore romance by giving Jeff a girlfriend in Love's Abiding Joy still left something to be desired. Then a widowed Missy re-married in Love's Unending Legacy, but Zac is a bland character, despite being very handsom. Finally in the sixth film we have the same elements as in the first: two driven young people with integrity and strong minds, colliding as the winds of destiny toss...

Discrepancies
There is no doubt that the Love Comes Softly movie series are very well done and wonderfully enjoyable. The only thing that bothers me is that there are so many discrepancies between the books and the movies. Important characters are cut, children that belong to Marty are attached to Missy, and other important areas of the story are left out. The movies as a whole or in part are excellent family entertainment, but anyone that has read and reread the books needs to be prepared for a totally different series which only resembles the original book series.

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