Although somewhat mis-cast and given lines above her character, Katherine Heigl brings dignity and wit to a simple part. She plays an intelligent, well-read, young frontier wife who loses her husband and must subsequently marry a man with a daughter from a previous life. Naturally, Heigl and the daughter quarrel over things like the difference between "He don't" versus "He doesn't," and whether or not the ability to cook fried chicken proves the quality of one's womanhood.
This is a production of the "Faith and Values" network (or company, or consortium, or party). Those hoping for a look at Heigl's body will be chastened. But, for another take on the stepmother-meets-smoldering-child story, this one's frontier setting revitalizes an old chestnut.
The kid who plays the bratty daughter isn't the Tatum O'Neal she wants to be, but she's not bad. Neither is Heigl, who usually is.
Michael Landon, Jr., directed and half-wrote this one. If his father's version of Wilders' "Little House" stories pleased you, this one will too.
This is a production of the "Faith and Values" network (or company, or consortium, or party). Those hoping for a look at Heigl's body will be chastened. But, for another take on the stepmother-meets-smoldering-child story, this one's frontier setting revitalizes an old chestnut.
The kid who plays the bratty daughter isn't the Tatum O'Neal she wants to be, but she's not bad. Neither is Heigl, who usually is.
Michael Landon, Jr., directed and half-wrote this one. If his father's version of Wilders' "Little House" stories pleased you, this one will too.