Editorial Review:

Description:
In the latest Love series installment, two years have passed since the tragic death of Missie's husband Willie. Missie is forced to move back to her father's ranch in Tettsford Junction and ends up adopting a teenage orphan girl who tests her faith and strength. Missie is compelled to defend the girl's orphan brother who is being mistreated by his adoptive family all the while fighting her own feelings of love for the town sheriff.

Amazon.com:
Cynics beware! From the first sweeping chords of the soundtrack, it's clear that Love's Unending Legacy will continue Janette Oke's heartfelt tales of love, pluck, and Christian faith in the days of pioneers. Missy LaHaye (Erin Cottrell, repeating the role from Love's Long Journey and Love's Abiding Joy) comes back to her father and stepmother after the death of her husband, only to find herself adopting a teenage girl named Elinda and sparring verbally with the town's handsome young sheriff. Missy can't understand Elinda's rebellious ways until she discovers why the girl has been smuggling food to a boy at a nearby farm. Fans of the Love series (which began with Love Comes Softly) will be untroubled by the movie's modern notions of childhood (to say nothing of some very modern necklines) and the supernatural cleanliness of this frontier town; period realism matters less than a sincere portrayal of Christian values. (Some viewers, however, may feel that the movie's earnestness curdles into mawkishness.) Also featuring staunch Dale Midkiff, who's played Missy's staunch father Clark Davis in all five of the Love movies to date. --Bret Fetzer

This is a great one also of how someone after losing the love of your life and more of having to go with your life and raise your children, of time to weep, laugh and love again. Great one this is Its a keeper like i said about Loves Abiding Joy, once you get hooked on clean movies you's want to buy more and more, I do.

Average Rating:

Rating: - Loves Unending Legacy
This is a great one also of how someone after losing the love of your life and more of having to go with your life and raise your children, of time to weep, laugh and love again. Great one this is Its a keeper like i said about Loves Abiding Joy, once you get hooked on clean movies you's want to buy more and more, I do.

Rating: - Improving on Love's Unending Legacy
Love's Abidiing Joy, the previous installment of the Love Series, was a laughable crash of an adapation. This installment is a vast improvement over LAJ. A director who has kept the situations heartfelt and real. Material that may veer toward mauldlin, but knows just when to cut back in order to keep it real. While there seems to be questions with some liberties take from the book, on it's own the film works fairly well. One of my sticking points is the abrupt dismissal of Missie's first husband, in a poorly reenactment of his death. Once that is over, the film begins to gain it's track and right itself from his previous quality detour. Whereas the loss of a infant child is handled poorly in the previous film, this time around, it is dealt with with much humanity, poignancy and in a realistic manner. Kudos to the writer in the scene relating the loss of a child and tying it in beautifully with the new installment. Glad to see the series right itself and begin to get back on track with this installment. While far from the best (see LOVE COMES SOFTLY), it is a fine sequel (5th!) and makes you want to continue the sage. Thanks Mark Griffin for returning to the humanity of the situation and getting the series out of it's laughable detour of Love's Abiding Joy (do we really find abiding Joy in dreadful laughable films?????!)

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Rating: - Great family series!!
This was another great piece of the puzzle. My family has enjoyed watching this serious; from the seven-year-old to the grandparents.

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Rating: - What were they thinking?
First off, I don't think this movie is horrible. This was my first exposure to the series (I haven't read Janette Oke's books) and on my first viewing I thought it was a nice, enjoyable movie. Then I watched a few of the others and rewatched this one again, and it leaves me shaking my head. Why kill off Willie? As many viewers have said over and over, he was an excellent character, and the actor did a wonderful job of creating a soft-spoken, hard working, loving man--perfect romance hero material. Viewers have gone through three movies with this character/actor and have made a deep connection with him, and suddenly he's gone? Personally I mourned the character's demise more than his wife apparently did--she was primed and ready for romance with ANOTHER sheriff. The fact that Willie is alive in the book series makes the director/producer/screenwriters' decision all that more deplorable.

If they needed to get Missie back to Anderson Corner to renunite with her mother and father there were a number of ways to do that without killing off Willie. If Logan Bartholomew wasn't available for this movie, I think Victor Browne would have worked as a recast. His character was a carbon copy of Willie anyway. And at least make a mention of Jeff and Colette, and Cookie and Scottie. Leaving viewers to wonder what happened is lazy and disrespectful to those who have invested time in watching and buying the movie.

All these complaints aside, I do think more sweet, clean movies need to be produced. There is an audience that craves family and faith based entertainment. However, film makers don't need to sacrifice quality, as they did with this movie.

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Rating: - Love's Unending Legacy
I enjoyed this addition to the Love Comes Softly series just as much as I have all of them and wait eagerly for the one to follow Love's Unfolding Dream. I love them all and sit down to watch the whole series all in a row quite often. I have not read the books as movies are very often not like the books they are based on. I give every one in the series a five star rating but my favorite is Love's Long Journey.

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