The best movie of the Love Come Softly series from Janette Oke is one of the most sweetest and enduring romantic stories I've seen. Marty Claridge is a woman newly married and making her way to a new place with her new husband to start a family. Sadly tragedy strikes when her husband dies while chasing a runaway horse. Now Marty is alone and in a strange place in the west during the 1800s. In that time a woman all alone in a place like that would surely mean danger and possibly death. A man named Clark Davis gives Marty a proposition. Marry him and help him with his little girl until the spring where she can then take a train and go back to her original home. During that time Marty learns a new way of life and a new way of loving. Clark Davis is a good, christian man who teaches Marty how to pick up her life and start again. They slowly begin to fall in love with each other and Marty comes to accept and be happy with her new family.
Clark Davis is played by the charming Dale Midkiff. He gives such a heartwarming and genuine performance of a man who lost his first wife and has now had to raise his young daughter alone. Marty is played by the lovely Katherine Heigl and she also gives a genuine and sweet performance of a woman who has lost everything and must take a step into a brave, new and sometime frightening world. This is a Christian based story that teaches a good lesson but also plays out the romance of the film just as well. I would recommend this to anyone who has a love of period romances. This is one that is not to be missed!
3. Maria and Captain Von Trapp from The Sound of Music
Yes, another musical which is just as great as the other one in my opinion. Also, this one was based on true events! Maria is a sorta nun-in-training but she can't keep her head out of the clouds. So her Mother Superior gives her a chance to make a choice. Maria is given a job as a governess for a family of a man named Captain Von Trapp. Things go shall I say less than exceptional at the beginning between Maria and army of children Von Trapp has. As the long movie continues though things take a turn for the better for Maria and the children but not so much for her and Von Trapp. After the other woman is taken care of, Von Trapp and Maria begin to see each other is a different light. A romantic light that is. They have an chemistry induced dance in the garden and everything changes! Soon Maria is Von Trapp's wife and the gang go on a musical rampage through the now Nazi controlled Austria.
Maria is played by the always entertaining and lovely Julie Andrews with bubbly enthusiasm almost completely throughout the film. How could the children NOT love her?! She is freaking Mary Poppins!
Captain Von Trapp is played by the equally entertaining and charming Christopher Plummer. This guy is very striking and has such a presence! Try to remember the first time you saw this film! Wow! Yeah, me too! lol!
Everyone should watch this movie at least once in their lifetime if not more. If your a sucker for music and romance then this is your kind of film! :)
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