Love's Enduring Promise (2004)

Instead, you get a movie that's enjoyable enough, but leaves you feeling like it could have been much, much more.

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.

Strong acting helps the film overcome an uncertain premise and create characters that hold our attention absolutely.

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

The second movie in the Hallmark's 'Love Comes Softly' movie series. The story, the characters and a few casts continued from the first, but leaps forward to a few years where we can see the all grown up Missie. She's a school teacher who is living happily with her two younger brothers and parents. This was a good movie as well and well narrated without hurriedness like the first film that ran just under the 90 minutes.This is the Missie Davis story. The movie talks about her life as a young woman who encounters her love for the first time. What she expects from it and her experience in the style of between mid and late 1800s. It was not all about the romance, but some drama centers around an accident that happen at the beginning. In the other parallel string story of an another family, connect with the past events introduced a few characters of its own.Kind of depressing from the story narration to music, but in a good way. Rising from the tragedy and sorrow is the main theme. Like the story moved on to the next generation, the young cast as well performed very well. As the film concentrates around Missie, the involvement of other characters as well very compressed. Thus, looks like the minimal cast movie and the other reason is the most of the scenes were shot in the isolated places like having only two characters around."Never despise meager beginning."I saw the loop, a circle, combining the first two films in the series. I mean this second movie's end was similar to where the first movie was began. That gave me some idea of what might have happened before the first film's commencement. It is only my guessing, who knows, in the next parts the truth could be revealed. As looking at the style of narration, there won't be any flashbacks, not in the pictures, maybe by the remembering the past.A very good follow-up, cleverly switched to another phase of the storytelling and by expanding, opens more window for the next parts. Slow pace and I'm not complaining that because I was expecting it. Being a television movie, it's given the overall best product. Now I can't wait for the third movie. Okay, goodbye then, I'll meet you in the next parts's review.8/10

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.

Michael Landon Jr., you've done it again! I viewed this movie with a friend expecting The Dumpies, but I was PLEASANTLY surprised! I can't remember enjoying a movie so much since Bambi was released on VHS! This is definitely a film that will be added to my "For A Good Watch" only shelf! MAJOR props to all the superb actors! Note: If you like movies filled with all the nasty gore and foul language, then this is definitely NOT for you! This movie is for people with higher standards and more cultured tastes. I am not even an old, Mennonite mom trying to preach, I'm just stating the facts... and trying to make this review ten lines long........

I joined this site just to be able to vote for this movie as I felt the rating was way too low. This happens very rarely, but this movie was actually better than the book. A movie like this is one that I would buy because I believe it is family entertainment that upholds values that I want my children to emulate. The acting was absolutely superb!! Kudos to Michael Landon Jr. for embarking on this project. I would love to tell him of my appreciation and let him know that there are many people who are grateful for those who go against cultural trends to produce movies that portray positive role models. I will recommend this to everyone -especially those who have read the Janette Oke series of books. I read them when I was a teenager and remember them as sort of sappy, but I have to admit that I cried a few times in this movie because I felt the characters were so believable and I quickly became attached to them.