Haylie Duff is Annie, a pregnant doctor who travels from Kansas to Sikeston, Missouri, for a pre-birth visit with her best friend, Dr. Belinda Owens (Sarah Owens).
Belinda has settled down in Sikeston with her blacksmith husband (Jordan Bridges a Lee) and their adopted teenage daughter (Courtney Halverson as Lillian).
Belinda figures her medical training makes her the perfect person to watch over Annie while Annie’s husband is off on a new job as a surveyor.
But when complications arrive with the pregnancy, so does Annie’s mother-in-law Mary (Patty Duke). And Mary has spent decades serving as a midwife.
Belinda’s training and Mary’s folk remedies immediately clash, causing friction between the women.
And Annie’s arrival has stirred feelings of unhappiness and inadequacy in Belinda, who just can’t seem to get pregnant.
Meanwhile, Lee frets that Lillian is growing up too fast when she takes a liking to his newly arrived intern, Joshua (Michael Trevino).
Sarah Jones as Belinda Owens, trying to nurse her best friend through a difficult pregnancy in Love Finds a Home (2009)
Jordan Bridges as blacksmith Lee Owens, fearing his adopted daughter is growing up too fast in Love Finds a Home (2009)
Review:
As predictable as any Hallmark Christmas movie. Heck, maybe even more so. And if you’re looking for gritty Western action and realism, look elsewhere.
Not a gunshot is fired in this film’s 89 minutes. This is a movie where a smudge of dirt on a handsome blacksmith’s face is a major nod toward authenticity.
A villain? The closest we get is an unappreciative husband who won’t allow his anemic wife to eat more veggies because he’s a meat and potatoes guy.
All that aside, this is a likeable, feel-good family film thanks to a very likeable cast. Patty Duke. in her mid-60s and 40 years removed from the sitcom that bore her name, lends a surprising and much needed bit of gusto in her role as the midwife.
This marked the eighth film in Hallmark’s Love Comes Softly series, following “Love Takes Wing,” which also starred Sarah Jones and Haylie Duff. It was followed by a prequel, “Love Begins” (2010).
Haylie Duff as Annie, heading off to visit a friend while pregnant in Love Finds a Home (2009)
Patty Duke as Mary, presenting Doc Belinda with what she calls a sure-fire herb to induce birth in Love Finds a Home (2009)
Directed by:
David S. Cass Sr.
Cast:
Sarah Jones … Belinda
Haylie Duff … Annie
Jordan Bridges … Lee Owens
Patty Duke … Mary
Courtney Halverson … Lillian
Michael Trevino … Joshua
Jeffrey Muller … Peter
Dahlia Salem … Mabel McQueen
Thomas Kopache … Rev. Davis
Chad Welsley Smathers …. Danny Travis
Daniel Beer … Lloyd McQueen
Jeff Clark … Mr. Travis
Jennifer Costa … Mrs. Travis
Runtime: 89 min.
Courtney Halverson as Lillian, the Owens’ adopted daughter, ready for a picnic with blacksmith intern Joshua in Love Finds a Home (2009)
Michael Trevino as Joshua, the blacksmith intern who takes a liking to Lillian Owens in Love Finds a Home (2009)
Memorable lines:
Lillian, when pregnant Annie arrives at the Owens home: “She looks wonderful, doesn’t she, pa?”
Lee Owens: “Yeah. She looks very .. round.”
Annie, at husband Peter leaves for a surveying job: “Peter, please be careful.”
Peter: “Yes, my level and compass are dangerous pieces of equipment.”
Joshua, meeting Belinda and Annie for the first time: “It’s funny. I just had no idea women were allowed to be doctors.”
Mary to Belinda Owens: “The shine in your hair is not the mark of a barren woman.”
Mary to Doc Belinda Owens: “I may bring them into the world, but you keep them alive and kickin’ once they’re here.”
Dahlia Salem as Mabel McQueen, a woman suffering from anemia following the birth of a child in Love Finds a Home (2009)
Daniel Beer as Lloyd McQueen, an unappreciative husband throwing a tantrum at the general store in Love Finds a Home (2009)
Jeffrey Muller as Peter, Annie’s husband, heading off on a surveying job in Love Finds a Home (2009)
Thomas Kopache as Rev. Davis, offering words of advice to blacksmith Lee Owens in Love Finds a Home (2009)
Jordan Bridges as Lee Owens and Sarah Jones as his wife Belinda in Love Finds a Home (2009)
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