Civil Love

As soon as I started watching this movie,instantly I recognized the plot. This is a christian,PG version of a tv classic movie "The Outsider" 2002.... Without the sex scenes and with two kids instead of one.

I don't agree with other reviews,it was good enough,nothing stellar but good enough for tv.

I agree that the discrepancies un the wardrope was terrible,they shouldve consult some books on the era they were going to recreate. Same with the buildings been so new,unrealistic.

The male lead acting was good and he is handsome. The female lead was good for what it is,not terrible in my opinion.

It is possible to make a good film on a shoestring budget. It is not possible to make a good film on a shoestring budget when the actress playing the heroine has less acting ability than one of my cats and the scriptwriter patently has not progressed beyond the 'write about your holiday' stage of the craft.

I think that says it all. Aside from the costume designer needing to complete his/her GCSE in textile design; that would also have helped.

Seriously, it's a terrible film. Avoid.

I found this by searching for Jeannette Oaks movies. Hallmark did such a good job with the Love Comes Softly series, but you are right this one's a dud. I gave it a good 16 minutes, though. Couldn't take a second more.

I can understand the storyline and am 1/2 the way through watching this. But the poor quality acting is making it difficult to get to the end. I don't think I can finish this, as I stare at the pause half way through the film. Yes, it's that bad. I'm sorry - not usually this harsh on a movie. The story is predictable and it would be endurable if not for the lack in quality acting.

Civil Love probably is a bad title for this story about a Union widow and a Confederate prisoner on the run. In those days it might indicate living together without benefit of clergy and in those days people did marry in the church for the most part.

Elise Groves whose husband was killed in the war is doing her level best to keep the family farm running and raising her daughter and son. One day Paul Hunt comes into their lives and he's wounded and running from a pair of bounty hunters who say they are US Marshals.

At first reluctant to take in one of the enemy Hunt does prove useful around the place and the inevitable happens. There's also Marshal Bellows around for a rival and he's both the brother of Groves late husband and the local sheriff. He has some feelings himself for Groves and that kind of interferes with his judgment.

The film was shot on a dental floss budget, but the acting is decent enough from a bunch of players you never heard of. The rural area is suggestive of 19th century America.

We never know exactly where this takes place. Hunt mentions escaping from a northern prison in New York. That would be Elmira which was a Union prison. Conditions there were little better than the infamous Andersonville and Libby Prisons in the South. That fact does kind of ground the film historically so to speak.

Civil Love despite its title is a decent enough film for family viewing.