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Love Comes Softly

 (Vol. 1 to 11)
Love Comes Softly is a 2003 Christian drama television movie set in the 19th century, based on a series of books by Janette Oke. It originally aired on Hallmark Channel in 2003. It was directed by Michael Landon Jr.
 

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Love Comes Softly: Vol. 1

The first heartwarming movie in Janette Oke’s Love Comes Softly saga.

A young woman’s dream to forge a new life for herself on the great American plains becomes a test of her pioneering spirit, her inner strength, and her undying faith and courage.

Marty and Aaron Claridge (Katherine Heigl and Oliver Macready) travel west in search of new opportunity. But when tragedy strikes and Marty is suddenly widowed, the young woman must face the rugged terrain, bleak weather, and life among strangers – alone. That is until a handsome widower named Clark Davis (Dale Midkiff) suggests a platonic “marriage of convenience” until Marty can return home. As the months pass, though, Marty and Clark discover an unexpected new love where there was once only loss.

 

Love Comes Softly: Vol. 2 – Love’s Enduring Promise

The second heartwarming movie in Janette Oke’s Love Comes Softly saga.

A pioneering clan struggles to stay together, for the family, for the land, and for the promise of the future—amid life’s adversities…

Based on Janette Oke’s best-selling novel, this poignant sequel to Love Comes Softly will draw you in from beginning to end. Missie Davis (January Jones) is devoted equally to teaching school and doing her fair share on the farm. When a handsome railroad heir (Mackenzie Astin) starts to woo her, Missie is nearly swept off her feet. That is, until a mysterious stranger (Logan Bartholomew) with a troubled past shows up. Torn between two very different men, Missie learns what is truly important in this inspiring film that the whole family will enjoy.

 

 

Love Comes Softly: Vol. 3 – Love’s Long Journey 

The second heartwarming movie in Janette Oke’s Love Comes Softly saga.

A pioneering clan struggles to stay together, for the family, for the land, and for the promise of the future—amid life’s adversities…

Based on Janette Oke’s best-selling novel, this poignant sequel to Love Comes Softly will draw you in from beginning to end. Missie Davis (January Jones) is devoted equally to teaching school and doing her fair share on the farm. When a handsome railroad heir (Mackenzie Astin) starts to woo her, Missie is nearly swept off her feet. That is, until a mysterious stranger (Logan Bartholomew) with a troubled past shows up. Torn between two very different men, Missie learns what is truly important in this inspiring film that the whole family will enjoy.

 

 

Love Comes Softly: Vol. 4 – Love’s Abiding Joy

The fourth heartwarming movie in Janette Oke’s Love Comes Softly saga.

Directed by Michael Landon, Jr., this fourth installment in Janette Oke’s beloved “Love Comes Softly” series is now a satisfying, heartwarming feature. Following a treacherous journey West, Missie (Erin Cottrell) and her husband (Logan Bartholomew) have set up a homestead where they’ve begun to raise a family. And now that a railroad line connects the states, Missie’s father (Dale Midkiff) is able to visit. But when the joyful reunion is interrupted by tragedy, the faith and love of this family is once again challenged in a story you and your family will never forget.

 

 

 

Love Comes Softly: Vol. 5 – Love’s Unending Legacy

The fifth heartwarming movie in Janette Oke’s Love Comes Softly saga.

Two years have passed since the tragic death of Missie LaHaye’s husband Willie. Ultimately unable to work the land on her own, Missie (Erin Cottrell) and son Maddie leave Tettsford Junction for the security of her father’s ranch and the hope of a new life. New adventures await as Missie takes in reluctant orphan Belinda (Holliston Coleman) who hides a secret. A new home also brings the possibility of romance… if Missie can manage to put the past behind her. Dale Midkiff and Victor Browne also star in this touching story of faith and love.

 

 

 

Love Comes Softly: Vol. 6 – Love’s Unfolding Dream

The sixth film in the continuing series based on the bestselling books by Janette Oke.

Eight years after finding new life and new love in the hometown of her father, Clark Davis (Dale Midkiff), Missie Tyler (Erin Cottrell) must help her adopted daughter Belinda (Scout Taylor-Compton) find her own path in the Hallmark Original Movie Love’s Unfolding Dream, the sixth installment in the popular movie series that began in 2003 with Love Comes Softly.

Living happily in Anderson’s Corner with her adopted parents Missie and Zach Tyler (Victor Browne), Belinda Tyler has blossomed from the timid orphan in Love’s Unending Legacy into a confident young woman, a natural born caretaker who believes it is her purpose to serve her community as a doctor. But her resolution is tested when the town’s physician insists that women, with their need to be married and be mothers, are incompatible with a medical career. Further complicating Belinda’s life is the fact that she is falling in love with Drew Simpson (Patrick Levis), an attractive New York lawyer who expects a traditional wife and family back East. As her life is pulled in different directions, the headstrong Belinda begins to wonder if she can rely on her faith if she also follows her heart.

 

 

Love Comes Softly: Vol. 7 – Love Takes Wing

The seventh heartwarming movie in Janette Oke’s Love Comes Softly saga.

Dr. Belinda Simpson (Sarah Jones) arrives in the town of Sikeston as a physician only to find many people have become ill or have died from a mystery ailment.

Still as feisty as ever, Belinda Simpson is now a doctor in a small Missouri town where an unknown plague is spreading fear and resentment among the townspeople. One local resident thinks the illness was spread from the town orphanage and wants to see it shut down. Belinda struggles to make sense of the disease and God’s plan for the beleaguered town. But with the support of Lee Owens (Jordan Bridges), the town’s handsome young blacksmith and her best friend (Haylie Duff), Belinda learns that if she can rely on faith — and love — then everything else may just fall into place.

 

 

 

Love Comes Softly: Vol. 8 – Love Finds A Home

The story continues with Belinda (Sarah Jones), a rare female doctor working in a quaint Missouri town. When her longtime friend and colleague, Annie (Haylie Duff), arrives so that Belinda can watch over her in the last stages of her pregnancy, Annie brings along her mother-in-law, Mary (Patty Duke), a seen-it-all nursemaid whose 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. While her adopted daughter discovers the joys and pains of a first love, Belinda and her husband (Jordan Bridges) find their own relationship is suffering over Belinda’s inability to get pregnant.

Just as the town learned to put its faith in Belinda as their doctor, so too must Belinda learn to accept that the best guidance for her own problems may come from unlikely sources.

 

 

Love Comes Softly: Vol. 9 – Love Begins

Award-winning author Janette Oke’s most beloved book series Love Comes Softly and Oke’s iconic hero Clark Davis have inspired two prequels and bring two new films into Hallmark Channel’s most successful movie series of all time. Nancy McKeon (“The Facts of Life”), Wes Brown (“True Blood”) and Julie Mond (“General Hospital”) star in “Love Begins,” a Hallmark Channel Original Movie, Saturday, September 17 (9p.m. ET/PT, 8C). Brown and Mond also star in the second prequel, “Love’s Everlasting Courage,” Saturday, October 1 (9p.m. ET/PT, 8C) on Hallmark Channel.

In Anderson’s Corner, a young Clark Davis finds the love of his life

Clark Davis’ (Wes Brown) adventurous dreams of seeing the world are put into jeopardy after he and a friend start a fight which damages a local cafe. Through a plea deal with the Sheriff (Jere Burns) and café owner Millie (Nancy McKeon), Clark works off his sentence as a farmhand for the Barlow sisters, Ellen (Julie Mond) and Cassie (Abigail Mavity).

Older sister Ellen doesn’t understand Cassie’s friendly nature with Clark; she agreed to the Sheriff’s offer only because the farm has become too much to maintain alone. Clark is slowly winning Ellen over, but suddenly suffers a traumatic head injury in a fall. After Ellen nurses him back to health, her former fiancé returns to win her back. Will Clark travel on or stay behind where love begins?

 

 

 

 

Love Comes Softly: Vol. 10 – Love’s Everlasting Courage

In this second prequel to the bestselling Love Comes Softly series, Clark Davis (Wes Brown) struggles to maintain his land and support his family during a long drought. With a bank loan to repay, his wife, Ellen (Julie Mond), takes a job in town as a seamstress, but soon becomes ill with scarlet fever. Devastated to lose his beloved wife, Clark and his young daughter Missie (Morgan Lily) turn to his parents Irene (Cheryl Ladd) and Lloyd (Bruce Boxleitner) for support. Clark must find a way to save his farm and survive Ellen’s death without losing the person he loves most: his daughter.

 

 

Love Comes Softly: Vol. 11 – Love’s Christmas Journey

Inspired by Janette Oke’s award winning Love Comes Softly book series, the four-hour, star-studded movie event is an inspiring tale of love, trust and miracles.

While still mourning the loss of her husband and daughter, recently widowed Ellie King visits her brother Aaron Davis, a sheriff in the small town of Haddonton, and his two children during the Christmas holiday. Ellie does her best to enjoy the holidays, even making new friends with Beatrice, a local shop keeper and Deputy Strode.

Settling in nicely with her brother’s family, Ellie agrees to watch her niece and nephew when Aaron travels out of town to purchase adjacent land for farming. But when a corrupt attorney in town leaves a young man to blame for Mayor Wayne’s barn catching fire and burning, Ellie ignores distrusting townspeople and steps in to help to prove his innocence. To her dismay, the season’s festivities are threatened when Aaron goes missing.

When all seems lost, Ellie not only gets the perfect holiday miracle, her brother delivered home safely on Christmas morning, but also the chance at a new life when she finds herself falling in love again.

 

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