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Director
  
Michael Landon, Jr.

Initial DVD release
  
January 2, 2007

Duration
  

Country
  
USA

7/10
IMDb

Genre
  
Drama, Western

Film series
  
Love Comes Softly

Language
  
English

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Writer
  
Michael Landon Jr.
,
Janette Oke

Release date
  
October 6, 2006

Cast
  
Erin Cottrell
(Missie LaHaye),
Dale Midkiff
(Clark Davis),
Logan Bartholomew
(Willie LaHaye),
Frank McRae
(Cookie),
Drew Tyler Bell
(Jeff LaHaye),
William Morgan Sheppard
(Scottie)

Similar movies
  
Love Comes Softly movies, Related Michael Landon - Jr movies

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The death of an infant and a severe drought test the faith of Christian pioneers Missy and Willie LaHaye (Erin Cottrell, Logan Bartholomew) as they try to eke out a living as cattle ranchers. Willie reluctantly takes a job as town sheriff, then finds he must evict friends and neighbors who have fallen behind in their payments to land baron Samuel Doros (John Laughlin).

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Loves Abiding Joy is a 2006 Christian Drama made for TV movie based on a series of books by Janette Oke. It was directed by Michael Landon Jr. and stars Erin Cottrell and Logan Bartholomew. It is the fourth movie in the Love Saga, which includes Love Comes Softly (2003), Loves Enduring Promise (2004), Loves Long Journey (2005), Loves Abiding Joy (2006), Loves Unending Legacy (2007), Loves Unfolding Dream (2007), and Love Takes Wing (2009), and Love Finds a Home (2009), as well as the 2011 prequels, Love Begins and Loves Everlasting Courage.

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The continued Westward journey of settlers Missie and Willie Lahaye. Their roots now firmly planted as they set up homestead in the far West, Missie begins to realize her passion for teaching as Willie cares for the couple's young daughter Kathy while expanding the family ranch with a little help from sons Jeff and Matthew.

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Synopsis

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Clark goes out West to visit his daughter and son-in-law. During his visit, Kathy, the infant daughter of Willie and Missie, dies. A ruthless land baron and mayor, Doros, hires Willie as town sheriff, since grief-stricken Missie has quit her job as schoolteacher and the LaHayes need the money. Doros uses Willie as sheriff to try to evict ranchers that have fallen behind on payments. Missie helps one family by selling most of her most prized possessions, including the gold locket her mother gave her.

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During this time, Doros daughter, Colette, begins to like Willie and Missies adopted son, Jeff. Collette is an eastern-schooled girl who is home from school on break. Jeff is a well-read young man who must take over for Willie on the ranch. Colette visits the ranch frequently and helps Jeff with his chores. Jeff also visits her at Doros ranch. Doros secretly discovers this, but does not let on.

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As Collette prepares to leave for school, she and Jeff share a kiss. Her father lays a trap for Jeff using the unwitting Colette. Upon her departure, Doros charges Jeff with horse theft and demands that Willie arrest his own son. Doros swears that Jeff stole the horse, but Willie produces Colette, whom Doros thought left for school on the stagecoach. In the end, Clark realizes that his daughter Missie is in great hands with her husband, Willie and returns home.

Differences From The Novel

  • Marty and Clark both visited Missie in the novel, where Clark came alone in the film.
  • Missie and Willie have another son, Josiah, in the novel, but is not in the film. They later have two daughters, Melissa and Julia, mentioned in later novels. Missie is pregnant with Melissa at the close of this novel. Melissa comes east to stay with Clark and Marty in Loves Unfolding Dream. They do not have a daughter named Kathy who died as a baby.
  • Clark is seriously injured while attempting to rescue two boys from a cave in. He is near death, but his life is saved by a neighbor doctor who amputated his leg.
  • Willie does not become the town Sheriff in this novel.
  • The characters Jeff, Collette, and Doros do not exist in the novel.
  • References

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