EIGHT INSPIRING FILMS BASED ON JANETTE OKE’S BEST-SELLING NOVELS AND STARRING HOLLYWOOD LEADING LADIES – PATTY DUKE, KATHERINE HEIGL, JANUARY JONES AND CLORIS LEACHMAN – ARRIVE IN A COMPLETE DVD GIFT-SET ON DECEMBER 1
THE COMPLETE LOVE COMES SOFTLY COLLECTION
The Final Chapter – Love Finds A Home – Debuts As A
Stand Alone DVD On November 10
Stand Alone DVD On November 10
LOS ANGELES, CA. (November 5, 2009) – Eight stirring, beautifully crafted films based on best-selling author Janette Oke’s spiritual themed novels arrive on DVD in the exclusive The Complete Love Comes Softly Collection on December 1 from Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment. Additionally, the eighth and final chapter in the Love Comes Softly series, Love Finds A Home, also debuts as a stand alone DVD on November 10.
The Complete Love Comes Softly Collection is an emotional journey that follows a courageous group of women – unwavering in their faith – over three generations through their trials, tragedy and triumphs. An uplifting anthology from filmmaker Michael Landon Jr. that belongs in every family’s DVD collection, The Complete Love Comes Softly Collection stars Emmy®Winner* Katherine Heigl (“Grey’s Anatomy,” The Ugly Truth), January Jones (“Mad Men”), Scout Taylor-Compton (Halloween) and Haylie Duff (Napoleon Dynamite) and features several guest stars including Oscar® Winner** Patty Duke (The Miracle Worker), Cloris Leachman (Young Frankenstein) and Lou Diamond Phillips (“Stargate: Universe”). The set includes each release of the Love Comes Softly franchise that originally aired on The Hallmark Channel from 2003 to 2009. The Complete Love Comes Softly Collection DVD set will be available for the suggested retail price of $99.98 US / $139.98 Canada. The final series DVD, Love Finds A Home, will be available for the suggested retail price of $22.98 U.S./$27.98 Canada.
| LOVE COMES SOFTLY | |
| Following her husband’s untimely death on their journey west, Marty Claridge (Katherine Heigl) enters into a platonic marriage with Clark Davis (Dale Midkiff) that evolves into true love. | |
| Screen Format: | Side A: Widescreen - 1.78:1; Side B: Fullscreen - 1.33:1 |
| Total Run Time: | 88 minutes |
| MPAA Rating: | Not Rated US / PG Canada |
| LOVE’S ENDURING PROMISE | |
| Marty’s daughter Missie (January Jones), a devoted schoolteacher, is torn between a railroad heir (Mackenzie Astin) and a mysterious stranger (Logan Bartholomew). | |
| Screen Format: | Full Screen – 1.33:1 |
| Total Run Time: | 88 minutes |
| MPAA Rating: | Not Rated US / PG Canada |
| LOVE’S LONG JOURNEY | |
| Life changes forever when Missie (Erin Cottrell) discovers she is pregnant after she and Willie (Logan Bartholomew) leave the prairie forever. | |
| Screen Format: | Full Screen – 1.33:1 |
| Total Run Time: | 88 minutes |
| MPAA Rating: | Not Rated US / PG Canada |
| LOVE’S ABIDING JOY | |
| A family tragedy interrupts the joyful reunion of Missie (Erin Cottrell) and her father Clark (Dale Midkiff). | |
| Screen Format: | Side A: Widescreen - 1.78:1; Side B: Fullscreen - 1.33:1 |
| Total Run Time: | 88 minutes |
| MPAA Rating: | PG US / PG Canada |
| LOVE’S UNENDING LEGACY | |
| A widowed Missie (Erin Cottrell) and her son return to her childhood home, where Missie adopts Belinda, a difficult teen, and finds love again. | |
| Screen Format: | Widescreen - 1.78:1 |
| Total Run Time: | 84 minutes |
| MPAA Rating: | Not Rated US / PG Canada |
| LOVE’S UNFOLDING DREAM | |
| When Belinda (Scout Taylor-Compton) pursues her dream of becoming a doctor, she finds resistance within the male-dominated medical field – and from her intended! | |
| Screen Format: | Widescreen - 1.78:1 |
| Total Run Time: | 87 minutes |
| MPAA Rating: | Not Rated US / PG Canada |
| LOVE TAKES WING | |
| Physician Belinda Simpson’s (Sarah Jones) faith is tested as she tries to convince small-town Missourians that a local orphanage is not the source of a pandemic. | |
| Screen Format: | Widescreen - 1.78:1 |
| Total Run Time: | 88 minutes |
| MPAA Rating: | Not Rated US / PG Canada |
| LOVE FINDS A HOME | |
| When Belinda’s (Sarah Jones) pregnant friend (Haylie Duff) and her meddlesome mother-in-law (Patty Duke) come to visit, Belinda reevaluates everything she holds dear. | |
| Screen Format: | Widescreen - 1.78:1 |
| Total Run Time: | 88 minutes |
| MPAA Rating: | Not Rated US / PG Canada |
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| THE COMPLETE LOVE COMES SOFTLY COLLECTION | |
| Street Date: | December 1, 2009 |
| Pre-book Date: | November 4, 2009 |
| Catalog Number: | 2263551 |
| Audio: | 5.1 Dolby Digital |
| Total Run Time: | 699 Minutes |
| Closed Captioned: | No |
LOVE FINDS A HOME |
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| Street Date: | November 10, 2009 |
| Prebook Date: | October 14, 2009 |
| Catalog Number: | 2262532 |
| Screen Format: | Widescreen Format (1.78:1 aspect ratio) |
| Audio: | English 5.1 Dolby Surround Sound |
| Subtitles: | English and Spanish Subtitles |
| Total Running Time: | 88 minutes |
| Closed Captioned: | Yes |
* 2007, Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series, “Grey’s Anatomy”
** 1964, Best Actress in a Supporting Role, The Miracle Worker
