Love's Enduring Promise

November. 20,2004      
Rating:
7
Trailer Synopsis Cast

In this Janette Oke sequel to "Love Comes Softly," the eldest child in an 1800s frontier family, Missie Davis is a bright and beautiful elementary schoolteacher whose love for the prairie is matched only by her passion for books. When Missie encounters Grant, a handsome New England railroad executive, she feels as though she's met a hero from one of her novels.

January Jones as  Missie Davis
Logan Bartholomew as  Willie / Nate
Dale Midkiff as  Clark Davis
Katherine Heigl as  Marty Claridge
Kesun Loder as  Aaron Davis
Mackenzie Astin as  Grant Thomas
Cliff DeYoung as  Zeke
Dominic Scott Kay as  Mattie
Robert F. Lyons as  Doc Watkins
E.J. Callahan as  Asa

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Reviews

Cubussoli
2004/11/20

Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

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Glucedee
2004/11/21

It's hard to see any effort in the film. There's no comedy to speak of, no real drama and, worst of all.

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Lollivan
2004/11/22

It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

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Fleur
2004/11/23

Actress is magnificent and exudes a hypnotic screen presence in this affecting drama.

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SnoopyStyle
2004/11/24

Marty (Katherine Heigl)'s daughter Missie Davis (January Jones) is a kind hearted teacher. Passing surveyor Grant Thomas takes a liking to her. Her father Clark Davis is accidentally injured and saved by a mysterious farmhand named Nate. Nate helps to plant the field. The family calls it God's enduring promise. Nate has to resolve things with his father after a tragedy destroyed his family. Davis returns to court Missie and it turns out that his family is extremely wealthy. Davis offers her a life of luxury to get away from her struggles with poverty.I think Missie is suppose to be a teenager but January Jones is not. She has always played a little older and there is something off with her in this role. The fact that she's even slightly older than Katherine Heigl doesn't help. The story is functional with a message of endurance. It would be helpful to reveal Nate's secret from the start so that Nate and Missie can build more chemistry together.

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LilPink90
2004/11/25

Well as with all of the movies they have made so far with this series this movie was the most disappointing. If any one has read the books they would know that the first movie was off a little which is to be expected when a movie is based off an book. But, the this one was so off the story line it was maddening. If you changed the names of the characters and the name of the movie it would be hard to relate this movie to the book. They have cut out key characters, mainly the rest of Clark and Marty's children. And the plot line is nothing like the book. While the movie itself was good and enjoyable, my knowing the story made it hard to watch how far strayed from this series. There really is no way to even come back again, as shown in the next two movies. The writers are rewriting the story and ruining it.

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casterman
2004/11/26

Just like 'Love Comes Softly' this book has nothing in common with the book except for a few names, but that is no reason to pitch either one out. Love and enjoy each separately. It's like 'Anne of Green Gables' I love the books and the movies but they aren't identical either. I love Dale Midkiff. My only disappointment was I think he looks better with shorter hair like how he looked in 'The Magnificent Seven'. (Whoa, heart, calm down, he's somebody else's husband.) ;-) Anyway...I actually felt like Michael Landon, Jr. managed to incorporate more romance in this movie than Janette Oke had in the book. In the book, Willie and Missie's romance was probably a grand total of a dozen pages out of the whole thing if that much. Mrs. Oke seemed to want to run off on rabbit trails in the book talking about people that had very little to do with the Davis'. I cared more about Missie's romance than whether a neighbor had a baby or not and whether he was right in the head or not. In the book, I thought it was cute when Willie tried to help Missie shut the window that was stuck. That would have been cute to see in the movie. It was about the only thing in the book that resembled romance. I personally prefer romance with witty banter and things that make your heart flip over and make you laugh at the same time. The Danielle Steel type of stories seem to keep the people in bed so much that if real people stayed in the bed that much they would be dehydrated into a pile of dust in a month. Of course, Logan B. was very cute. My only thing there was they seemed to be trying too hard to make him be an expert in every field, and whenever he was around everyone else was helpless, but that wasn't his fault. He was mighty cute while he was being Superman, Marcus Welby, etc. Anyway...I think this movie is definitely worth a watch. Rita If Michael Landon, Jr. is reading this, may I suggest Lori Wick's 'The Californians' series, and 'A Place Called Home' series. Lori Copeland's book 'Hope'. She is hilarious.

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wolfpup-kmw
2004/11/27

I had just watched Love's Enduring Promise on the Halmark channel, and I was pleasantly surprised. Though the sequel wasn't quite as entertaining as the first one, it is well worth seeing. The storyline was well above average. The only part that was "ify" to me was the very beginning when Pa chopped his leg. It looked too much like he had died rather than just passed out, which would have been really lame. (Dying in 5 minutes because you cut your leg seems rather stupid, maybe that's just me.) The highlight of the whole movie is the young actor Logan Bartholomew. Saying that Nate/Willie is "handsome" is an understatement. He is an absolute hottie. I hope that he STARS in many more movies to come!!!!!! (If nothing else, watch the movie just to see him!) I definitely wouldn't mind a sequel to the sequel!

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