sheldonlinda

As others have said this film does have several problems. Grace's best friend is undeveloped as are the parents' church friends. The people on the music tour with the exception of the one nice guy are black and white bad. The main problem though I saw was that the main character seems too old for the part. She was 21 or 22 at the time of filming. Her character has just turned 18 or just graduated from high school. That kind of age gap in filming for shows and film is not unusual and usually works, but in this case - as others have said - she just felt too old for the part - and too old to be playing a naive 18 year old. I am surprised that the father hadn't talked to her more about the dangers of the music business and why he left.

What does work in this film though is the spirit, the story, and the music. Because of those things it is well worth seeing.

I did have to see the film however a couple of times to figure out what was happening. My own LDS/ Mormon culture doesn't have as what some Protestant groups term a "music ministry." Our regular meetings are very tame and very solemn. We do have what is sometimes termed "Mormon Pop" - which unfortunately gets sometimes made light of - which is played for fun, but never at formal meetings. It was a shock to see wild music played in regular church meetings in this film as well as other Christian films such as "Heaven is for Real" and "Miracles from Heaven."

Once I realized that this film though was about Christian music aka good uplifting music, I loved it and loved the spirit of it. The other night even the film was on again I sat down and watched it in it's entirety even though I had other things to be doing that night.

Even with all of the problems with the film bec. Of it's spirit and message it is well worth seeing.

As all of the "Ruby and the Well" episodes, this was a sweet episode. However, two of the guest characters were miscast because of their ages. Amanda Richer who plays the deaf girl does great in the spisode. The problem though is at the time of filming she was 36, close in age to the actor who plays her dad. The actors who play her parents aren't named on IMDB, but I recognize the actor who plays her dad as Evan Buliung who plays the father in "Holly Hobbie." The characters of the children during the final season of "Holly Hobbie" are aged 14 to 19. Buliung's age isn't listed in IMDB, but I am guessing from the characters in HH and from his appearance that he is in his mid - to late thirties. The actress who plays Richer's mother in the episode does look age appropriate. This makes Builung at the same age or just older than Richer. Buliung being near the same age as Richer wouldn't be that disconcerting - her character appears much younger - but he is obviously much younger than the actress who plays his wife in the episode. The age difference made me really uncomfortable and it made the romantic scene near the end of the episode feel very awkward.

Amanda Richer though does a great job in the episode and it was fun in the one scene where here character is teaching sign language for the viewers to have the opportunity to learn a bit of sign language.