It was OK. I don't see why everyone loves it so much. It wasn't very smart or deep or well-directed.

Just intense enough to provide a much-needed diversion, just lightweight enough to make you forget about it soon after it’s over. It’s not exactly “good,” per se, but it does what it sets out to do in terms of putting us on edge, which makes it … successful?

A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

Very good movie overall, highly recommended. Most of the negative reviews don't have any merit and are all pollitically based. Give this movie a chance at least, and it might give you a different perspective.

For anyone who has read the Little House books they would enjoy this TV movie. Unlike the Little House series (which I adored)this tells the actual story of Laura growing up and falling in love on the wilds of the prairie. Granted it was at first a little confusing seeing John Boy Walton playing the part of Pa Ingalls, but it was still enjoyable all the same. My only woe about the film is that it jumped ahead quite quickly and lacked detail in certain places but for anyone who hasn't read the books they probably wouldn't notice. Congratulations should be given to all the cast as it was a very brave thing to do since laura Ingalls is already known to the world through the eyes of Michael Landon.

First of all, Laura was a brunette, not a blonde. In fact, she deeply envied her older sister Mary's "golden" hair and wished her own could be that color. (I will give this adaptation some small credit, though -- at least they didn't have Mary get married and lose two children like the TV series did.) Second of all, the reason Almanzo decided to call Laura "Bessie" was because he had a sister named Laura and never cared for the name, and Laura, whose middle name was Elizabeth, repeated a rhyme about "Elizabeth, Elspeth, Betsy and Bess," rather than the dumb, badly-acted scene in this TV movie. Third of all, Laura and Almanzo's unnamed son did not die immediately after birth; he lived for a couple of weeks. Fourth of all, Laura's teacher, whom she fashioned an unkind chant about, was Almanzo's sister. Fifth of all...Oh, to heck with it. This adaptation contains so many inaccuracies that I lost count half an hour in. It's very annoying for a movie which claims to be the true story about Mrs. Wilder. Her fascinating and often heartbreaking life deserves better than this corny, sappy, lame tripe.

Yes, there was quite a bit of sensational melodrama here that probably wasn't the least bit true-to-life. (I've never actually read the Little House books, though I have read several biographies of Laura, but I don't need their biggest fan to tell me Laura never described her first "experience" with Almanzo probably at all, much less like this.) Merideth Monroe was pretty good as Laura, height and hair color aside, but often shallow, flat and annoyingly modern. But there was more stuff here, and most of it was good. Very nice photography of the Dakota prarie, good performances from Richard Thomas and Lindsay Crouse as Pa and Ma, and a real sense, thanks to the script, visuals and direction, of how hard prarie life was in the 1880s. Both like and unlike the usual Sunday-night TV-movie fare, and not really that bad. But you probably should read a good biography of the real Laura and the books themselves, just in case.

I caught most of this special on CBS this weekend. Boy was I disappointed. I expected to see a good, educational following of LIW's life. What I got was garbage. Try as they might, modern producers are just not going to replace The "Little House" TV series.Save yourself some time and watch TBS in the mornings. Or better yet, read the books.