Love's Enduring Promise (2004)

Devout, wild west farmer, Clark Davis, works his tail off to provide for his wife, sons Aaron and Arnie, and daughter Missie. When his doted upon, equally devoted oldest son Aaron is ... See full summary »

Director:

Michael Landon Jr.

Writers:

Cindy Kelley (teleplay), Michael Landon Jr. (teleplay)

Stars:

January Jones, Logan Bartholomew, Dale Midkiff

1 win & 2 nominations.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
January Jones	...	Missie Davis
Logan Bartholomew	...	Nate / Willie LaHaye
Dale Midkiff	...	Clark Davis
Katherine Heigl	...	Marty Claridge
Kesun Loder	...	Aaron Davis (as K'Sun Ray)
Logan Arens	...	Arnie Davis
Mackenzie Astin	...	Grant Thomas
Cliff De Young	...	Zeke
Matthew Peters	...	Brian Murphy
Michael Bartel	...	Willie at 15
Dominic Scott Kay	...	Mattie
Blaine Pate	...	Sam
Cara DeLizia	...	Annie Walker
Robert F. Lyons	...	Doc Watkins
Douglas Fisher	...	Edward Trumball

Storyline

Devout, wild west farmer, Clark Davis, works his tail off to provide for his wife, sons Aaron and Arnie, and daughter Missie. When his doted upon, equally devoted oldest son Aaron is startled, Clark, who was chopping firewood, accidentally hits his leg with an ax. He would have bled to death if wandering youngster Nate hadn't found them, brought them home and taken care of the farm, way above the kids' ability. Grateful Clark offers Nate an indefinite farmhand job, all the more interesting as Missy and he take to each other, but she's also courted by classy railroad surveyor. Once recovered, Clark realizes Nate is really Willie, the son of local grump, Zeke, who left years ago after his kid brother Mattie's tragical death. Decision time arrives for both families.

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Plot Keywords:

farm | farmer | starving child | 19th century | boy | 

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Genres:

Drama | Family | Western

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Certificate:

TV-PG

Details

Official Sites:

Hallmark Channel [United States] RHI Entertainment

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

20 November 2004 (USA)

Also Known As:

A szerelem mindent kibír

Filming Locations:

Paramount Ranch - 2813 Cornell Road, Agoura, California, USA

Company Credits

Production Co:

Hallmark Entertainment, Alpine Medien Productions, Larry Levinson Productions

Technical Specs

Runtime:

120 min 88 min (DVD)

Color:

Color

Did You Know?

Trivia

January Jones is actually 10 months older than Katherine Heigl, who plays her step-mother.

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Goofs

In the goodbye scene, she lost her wedding ring.

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Quotes

Marty Davis: My goodness, you make him sound like a fictional hero from one of your novels.
Missie Davis: Grant is educated and handsome, attentive. He's travelled all over for his job and seen places I've only read about.
Marty Davis: Just remember that God has written His own story for you and it's not the feelings of your heart that it should be based upon but rather the thoughts of your heart that you need to hear. That inner voice that tells you that this man will care for you no matter what, that he'll still want to kiss you ...
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Connections

Followed by Love's Everlasting Courage (2011)

User Reviews

Love's Enduring Promise

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.