Good start, but then it gets ruined

Don't listen to the negative reviews

All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

LOVE, based on a book series, is about a pregnant widow (Katherine Heigl) staying for awhile with a farmer (Dale Midkiff) who is a widower with a small daughter (Skye Bartusiak). Not surprisingly, she falls in love with the hardworking, God-fearing farmer, and hopes to stay and make a new life with him. Heigl and Midkiff turn in strong performances, and Bartusiak holds her own with these seasoned actors. The TV movie will remind many of LITTLE HOUSE ON THE PRAIRIE, and coincidentally was directed by Michael Landon Jr., son of Michael Landon, star of LITTLE HOUSE. There's a spiritual element to the plot and several references to a higher power, but it is not laid on so thick as to harm the movie. Beautifully filmed.

I love this movie!! Never read any of the books or even heard of the author. I'm usually not a person for romantic movies and I don't even read romantic novels, not one for Little 'House on the Prairie' either (thats kids stuff!!), but when I decided to watch this one it touched my heart deeply. I have watched it 4 times since then and only just found out that there are sequels to this movie!! So now I'm in the process of purchasing all the movies that follow on from this one. {UPDATE: Found all the other sequels not very good and a great disappointment. Cannot remember the actress who played the grown-up of the little girl by Dakota Fanning.... but the adult actress was really awful! Very bad acting, and in the other sequels! She spoilt the whole series! I will just stick to this one!}Great acting from all and love Dale Midkiff. Just love his character where he puts God first in his life. Soooooo want to see him in more movies like this - he's a sexy guy!! (I think so anyway!):o) I thought the story was excellent and such a change from all the filth that movies are filled with today violence, swearing, murders, serial killers. AND those endless court cases, BOY!! give us a break!!. Hope more movies are produced like this one as I'm hooked! Love the title and the whole meaning of it.

About half a lifetime ago, I was much impressed by a book & documentary about grief & death by a lady named Kubler-Ross. Though long deceased, she made a great deal of sense in her insightful & wise comments! A few years ago, on a web-site about prayers for the grieving, I found a beautiful comment from a widow who clearly loved her deceased husband, from her heart!!! She wrote of her lover a comment like "with every breath, I am brought one breath closer to you!" This movie, "Love Comes Softly", is a welcomed surprise I'd never previously heard of, that brought me closer to God & man or woman!!! … But selectively!!! For that is how it comes, softly, be it a lover downtrodden by circumstance, or a lover emerging out of the wilderness! Layers of necessity!!! It could have been a typical cowboy western I generally don't like, but "Love Comes Softly" brought the 'wild west' alive without bloodshed! But not without portraying the hardships of the portrayed or the downtrodden in their circumstance - lover, lover, beloved daughter, even creature or incidental character, not oblivious to the perspectives of the grief-striken or their loosely connected dimensions of further wisdom! Beyond that, this movie did it with LOVE!!! Fairness & justice & trust & truth were its integrity!!!Bravery & love were at its heart early on! Friendship & despair & desperate prayer but still LOVE were at its core later on! I am disturbed though at the narrowminded contributions in some reviews, that I none the less generally approved of & supported with my votes in their favour with reservations. Yet their conclusions seemed to be as if public decency & Christianity are to be only for narrowminded puritans! To them it seems, sex & violence are necessarily EVIL words in movies! Do not be discouraged from this fine movie on such comments! I am a Christian!!! I LOVE Jesus & His integrity!!! I love God as Creator!!! I love the concept of the Holy Spirit - dynamic in His role – across time & place - though I have OFTEN seen Him abused by supposed 'faithful' in church!!! As if the critics have never heard of "The Good Samaritan" robbed & unjustly passed by, via those who surely should have cared, or an old lady who gave all of her wealth in a couple of insignificant coins in the eyes of others watching, or the "Gentile" woman by the well Jesus loved, or heard the prayers of the man seeking forgiveness as against a proud rabbi in the same temple!!! So I despise hierarchies of bigoted snakes wherever they are found!!! Too often, sadly, among supposed 'Christians'! I found NONE of that in this beautiful movie!!!I haven't read the book! I don't know if it is good or better than this cinematic portrayal some viewers have accordingly taken exception to! I do know this tele-movie is touching & inspiring & worthy of WHOLEHEARTED recommendation for those who have eyes to see & ears to hear, whether they are "family" or "born again" or not!!! The "wild west" is CERTAINLY NOT the only place where the truer message of this superb movie was / is / will be NEEDED!!! But this movie is a good place to start!!!!

I have seen this movie as well Loves Enduring Promise and Loves Long Journey. I have also read the whole series by Jannet Oke. Love Come Softly was wonderful and I really enjoyed it, but Loves Long Journey was completely changed. I was very disappointed and I am concerned how it is going to connect with the rest of the story because the movie changed it . I just wanted to bring this to your attention. I was very happy with Love Comes Softly, but the movies that followed were a great disappointment to me. I wonder how the story is going to continue with everything changing. I hope that the movies that follow will contain more of what really happened in the book.