Love Comes Softly

• Director: Michael Landon, Jr.
• Genre: Romance
• Movie Type: Romantic Drama, Period Film
• Themes: Marriages of Convenience
• Main Cast: Katherine Heigl, Dale Midkiff, Skye McCole Bartusiak, Corbin Bernsen, Theresa Russell
• Release Year: 2003
• Country: US
• Run Time: 88 minutes

Plot

In the family-entertainment tradition of his multi-talented father Michael Landon, writer/director Michael Landon Jr. offered this made-for-cable frontier drama, adapted from a novel by Janet Oke. En route to her new home in the West, Marty Claridge (Katherine Heigl) suddenly finds herself a widow, with no roof over her head or means to support herself. At the gentle prodding of her settler friends Ben and Sarah Graham (Corbin Bernsen, Theresa Russell), Marty accepts the marriage proposal of taciturn widower Clark Davis (Dale Midkiff). It is strictly a business arrangement, with no romance or cohabitation involved; Marty will act as housekeeper to Davis and as teacher and surrogate mother for Clark's sullen nine-year-old daughter Missy (Skye McCole Bartusiak), and in return she will receive food and lodging. Pragmatists both, Marty and Clark assume that they will dissolve their marriage of convenience when the spring thaw comes...but that isn't how things turn out. Love Comes Softly first aired April 13, 2003, on the Hallmark Channel. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Cast

Katherine Heigl - Marty Claridge; Dale Midkiff - Clark Davis; Skye McCole Bartusiak - Missy Davis; Corbin Bernsen - Ben Graham; Theresa Russell - Sarah Graham; Oliver Macready - Aaron Claridge; Rutanya Alda - Wanda Marshall

Credit

Penny Perry - Casting, Michael Landon, Jr. - Director, Colleen Halsey - Editor, Larry Levinson - Executive Producer, Robert Halmi, Jr. - Executive Producer, William Spencer Reilly - Executive Producer, Ken Thorne - Composer (Music Score), William Ashford - Composer (Music Score), James W. Wrenn - Cinematographer, Kyle A. Clark - Producer, Kevin Bocarde - Producer, Michael Landon, Jr. - Teleplay By, Cindy Kelley - Teleplay By, Faye Schwab - Co-Executive Producer, Michael Landon, Jr. - Co-Executive Producer, Nick Lombardo - Co-Executive Producer, Brian J. Gordon - Supervising Producer, Janette Oke - Book Author

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