Love Takes Wing
Starring: Patrick Duffy, Cloris Leachman, Lou Diamond Phillips, Jordan Bridges, Haylie DuffDirector: Lou Diamond Phillips
Studio: 20th Century Fox
MPAA Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Running Time: 88 minutes
DVD Release: May 5th 2009
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Studio: Tcfhe Release Date: 05/05/2009 Run time: 88 minutes Rating: Nr
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Poor movie - Rating: 1/5
I've never read a "Love comes..." book and this is the first movie in the series that I've seen. It may be the last if this flick is any indicator of the quality of the others. The story is that of two lady doctors who come west to start their first jobs as physicians. One is recently widowed (though it took a long time for the story to get around to telling me it was her husband that she was mourning and not a brother or boyfriend). Perceived shortcomings: 1. The acting was mediocre to say the least. 2. What was with the main character's hair? Was she wearing a wig or what? It looked like it and I just wanted to reach out and snatch it off of her head. 3. The townspeople take no issue with the fact that their new doc is a woman? What's with that? 4. Lou Diamond Phillips, who directs the film, is cast in the roll of a belligerent townsman. His roll in the film just ends suddenly and left me waiting for him to reappear, do something else, show remorse, find religion, something, anything. It's weird how his storyline just stops. 5. Suddenly, after an entire movie of Belinda telling the blacksmith "Oh get away, I'm too sad and self absorbed to be interested in a new guy," BAM! he proposes and she says yes and they live happily ever after. 6. What is with the "I think it might be cholera" diagnosis? Every doctor in that time period would have known immediately whether or not it was cholera. Epidemics were common and feared. Good grief, 10% of the population of St. Louis was wiped out during the summer of 1849! Cholera works quickly and with its sudden onset massive diarrhea, drains the body of a great quantity of fluid in a short time. The cholera victims in the movie hung around for days while Belinda and her doctor companion and blacksmith buddy invented their own version of an IV set up - and that included ordering and waiting for a shipment of rubber tubing to come from who knows where to frontier Sikeston, MO. The writers would simply have had to google "cholera" to get some facts. 7. I take issue with the DVD case cover - there are no snow covered rocky mountains anywhere near Sikeston, MO. This movie is a waste of time.
Love Takes Wing - Rating: 5/5
So, glad to get another part of the Oke series( Love comes softly). Appreciate the timely manner that I received my DvD.
This was so horrible compared to the other movies. - Rating: 2/5
In the first seen Belinda and her friend look like two models on their way to the next photo shoot. Not like doctors on their way to a town in the old west. I can't stand the actress they picked to play Belinda. She was so expressionless and lifeless. I much prefer the darker haired actress of the prier film; she was spunky and full of life. This new girl was like "yes I'll marry you" with absolutely no expression or emotion.
They turned the last two films into more feminist rhetoric then a Christian message. In fact there was no Christian message.
And what is with them making the first husband of every main character die????? It's like a family tradition.
I enjoyed Patrick Duffy and Cloris Leachman but I didn't like seeing Lou Diamond Phillips as the bad guy. Over all not a great story but not bad directing and a wide range of acting from really bad to great.
good movie - Rating: 4/5
I actually thought this was the best movie of this series. It is kinda weird the way the characters are different in almost all of the movies but just to sit and watch a movie, it is a very good heartfelt movie. They make very few really clean movies anymore.
Love Takes Wing-DVD - Rating: 1/5
I was so excited to see a new installment of the "Love Comes Softly" series on DVD. But what a disappointment! The character of Belinda no longer has red hair and is no longer fiesty. The new Belinda is too stoic and barely smiles in the entire movie. Cloris Leachman does a great job as the orphanage matron, but she cant save the movie. Even Haylie Duff does a decent job as Belinda's classmate. Lou Diamond Phillips and Patrick Duffy were horrible too. The book is so much better: Belinda is not married, and follows Mrs. Stafford-Smythe (from the previous movie) to Boston to be her private nurse. I hope the next movie is better!
