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This is the fifth film in the Love Comes Softly series based on the books by Janette Oke centered around a pioneering family. In this entry Missy LaHaye has been left widowed when her sheriff husband Willie is killed breaking up a bar fight. After two years of toughing it out on her own she brings her son Mattie back home to her home town where she becomes the local teacher and has a small house of her own. Almost immediately she takes in a 14 year old orphan girl named Belinda, from the widows and orphans organization, who was sent with her brother from New York. Unfortunately, her brother goes to a neighboring farm where they are working him hard and not feeding him properly.

It was wonderful to see Erin Cottrell back as Mattie and Dale Midkiff as her father Clark Davis. There was also the introduction of the town sheriff Zach Taylor played by Victor Browne. I was disappointed to see another actress play Marty, I miss Katherine Heigl. Also...what happened to adopted son Jeff LaHaye???? He is not even mentioned in this film.

Overall it was a great story and I think fans of the series will love it.

While I appreciate having decent,wholesome movies to watch, the movies based on the Janette Oke "Love Comes Softly"series are such a disappointment. I know some of the messages suggest "if you can just get past the books" you can enjoy the movies. I cannot seem to do that. I love those books and do not understand why it is so hard to make movies that align more with stories and plots in them. I know some books are hard to make into movies and need some dramatization, but I don't think these books need THAT much help. I watched the first three but by movie number four, I'm reading the back of the DVD and I'm thinking "No thank you!" It really is a shame, these could have been terrific movies.

I saw first films of series with interest, being grateful for the sweet air of nostalgia, for the fair simplicity, crafted story and acting.

But for Love s Unednding Legacy I was just tired. Maybe, because the thoughts were about first actors , maybe because the story is too predictable and the events are too ...pedagogic. Something seems missing and the message becomes, little by little, boring. But, sure, precise target, noble effort and a story far to be more than version of soap opera .

Maybe, a sort of ingenuity is necessary to love this new parts . Or be familiar with series books .

So, the air of Little house in the Prairie, for me, is lost in this case.

The movie Absolutely nothing like the book Missy's husband never dies in fact Love's undering Legacy is about Marty and Clark and their children and they have a baby named Belinda she's not an orphan

What happened to Marty, that she's ill of sorts, in this movie? I really miss Katherine Heigl in this one!