Hallmark Channel Movie
Starring: Maggie Grace, Stephen Amell, Daniel Sharman, Poppy Drayton
Directed by Michael Landon Jr.
The Story:
It's turn of the century Canada, and Elizabeth (Drayton) is going to accept a position as a teacher, much like her Aunt (Grace) did years earlier. When she discovers her aunt's journal, she learns of a potential love (Amell) and it sets off questions in her head and heart of whether or not she is ready to leave her family behind and head out into the wild.
Based on author Janette Oke's bestseller, Landon brings his father's touch to the small screen for a Hallmark Channel movie of the week.
Except, unlike his father's Little House on the Prairie series, this tale is only half interesting.
Or more precise, there is apparently so little story to each, the need to mash the Aunt's journal with Elizabeth's own are the driving ingredients to this story.
The acting is fine, and the period piece looks great.
It's just, there isn't a whole lot to the story.
Most unsatisfying, the movie simply ends.
After 90 minutes of partial investment of these characters, you have an idea of how the movie should end, but it doesn't.
It just stops.
: /
Ah well...
With a little further digging, it appears that this was to set up a tv series.
Fair enough. Sneaky...
Final Grade: C-
Rewatchability/Purchase Factor: Not when I have the whole Little House on the Prairie series already available at a moment's notice.
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