Love Takes Wing | |
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Written by | Rachel Stuhler (teleplay) Janette Oke (novel) |
Directed by | Lou Diamond Phillips |
Starring |
Sarah Jones Jordan Bridges Haylie Duff Lou Diamond Phillips |
Country of origin | United States |
Original language(s) | English |
Production | |
Producer(s) | Kyle A. Clark Stephen Niver |
Editor(s) | Colleen Halsey |
Release | |
Original network | Hallmark Channel |
Original release | April 4, 2009 |
Chronology | |
Preceded by | Love's Unfolding Dream |
Followed by | Love Finds a Home |
Love Takes Wing is a Christian drama and the seventh TV movie based on a series of books by Janette Oke. It aired on Hallmark Channel on April 4, 2009.Lou Diamond Phillips directed from a script by Rachel Stuhler, based on the book Love Takes Wing by Janette Oke.
It is the seventh movie in an ongoing series that includes Love Comes Softly (2003), Love's Enduring Promise (2004), Love's Long Journey (2005), Love's Abiding Joy (2006), Love's Unending Legacy (2007), and Love's Unfolding Dream (2007), and Love Finds a Home (2009), as well as two 2011 prequels, Love Begins, Love's Everlasting Courage, and Love's Christmas Journey.
Mourning her husband's recent death, Dr. Belinda Simpson (Sarah Jones) arrives in the tiny town of Sikeston to fill the post of town physician. Once there she discovers that many of the town’s residents, including children at an orphanage run by Miss Hattie Clarence (Cloris Leachman), have fallen ill or died from an unknown ailment. She soon wonders if she's in over her head, despite reassurances from her best friend Annie (Haylie Duff) and Lee (Jordan Bridges), the town blacksmith.