Love's Unfolding Dream

Love's Unfolding Dream Review

Whenever you see the words "based on" you know the film isn't going to follow the original story...as proves the case in this series. I don't usually like films that are "based on" - particularly if I have loved the original stories - but I did enjoy this series directed by Michael Landon Jr. If you can accept these aren't the stories of the books written by Christian author Janette Oke, they are an enjoyable set of films of love & faith to watch in their own right. "Love's Long Journey" is my favourite in this series, but this film is a close second.

In this film:
Belinda Tyler has grown up and has a deep longing to be a doctor - a dream that is supported by her family. When Dr. Jackson advertises for an assistant, Belinda is there like a flash. Dr. Jackson believes women should be at home & isn't keen on having her work for him, but with faith & hard work, Belinda starts winning hearts who believe she should be in the profession. These include a wealthy dowager whom Belinda nurses back to full strength, Dr. Jackson himself, & visiting lawyer Drew Simpson. Belinda has always thought that to succeed as a doctor, her other dream for love would have to take second place. Only then Drew Simpson arrives to invade her heart. After his initial surprise at Belinda's choice of profession, he comes to see she is perfect for the job & supports her dream...now he just has to convince her that she can train to be a doctor and be married to him also!

Buy the series:
Janette Oke the Love Comes Softly Series: (Set of 6 DVDs) Love Comes Softly; Love's Enduring Promise; Love's Long Journey; Love's Abiding Joy; Loves Unending Legacy; Loves Unfolding Dream

Love's Unfolding Dream Overview

Based on the book from award-winning author Janette Oke comes the next chapter of the Love series and introduces audiences to the new generation when Missie's daughter Belinda struggles with her dreams of becoming a doctor and her feelings for a newcomer in town.

Love's Unfolding Dream Specifications

Another generation of spunky pioneer women wrestles with love and life in Love's Unfolding Dream, the sixth in a series of movies based on the Christian romance novels of Janette Oke. Belinda (Scout Taylor-Compton), the adopted daughter of Missy and Zach Tyler (Erin Cottrell and Victor Browne of Love's Unending Legacy), aspires to become a doctor--but though the local doctor needs an assistant, he believes women should stay in the home. As Belinda fights this prejudice, a young law student named Drew (Patrick Levis) comes to her frontier town and soon sparks Belinda's heart. Meanwhile, Missy fights to help a woman whose husband is threatened by his wife's increasing education. Love's Unfolding Dream, like the other movies in this series that began with Love Comes Softly, follows the successful formula of good-looking young people frolicking in a tidy pioneer fantasy (even a moment of gruesome surgery doesn't have a spot of blood), combining wholesome romance, religious values, and homespun feminism. The storytelling is brisk and efficient, the performances comfortable and earnest; Compton, in a role that's 180 degree turn from her starring turn in the 2007 version of Halloween, makes a charming heroine. Fans will find Love's Unfolding Dream as satisfying as the rest of the series (though some lovers of Oke's novels may be dismayed that this movie, like some of the others, alters the book's original storyline). Also featuring Robert Pine (CHiPs) as the cantankerous country doctor. --Bret Fetzer

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