When Calls the Heart is a movie directed by Michael Landon Jr. in 2013 and based on the book of the same name by Janette Oke, first published in 1983. The movie features Maggie Grace, Stephen Amell, Poppy Drayton, Daniel Sharman, Cherie Lunghi, Christopher Villiers, and others.
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Storyline
Elizabeth Thatcher, a young teacher accustomed to her high society life, receives her first classroom post in a prairie town in the Western Frontier lead by headstrong coalminer widows Abigail and Frances. She is determined to prove to her family that she is brave enough to live on her own, but struggles with her own fears and doubts. When she discovers her late Aunt Elizabeth’s secret diary, Elizabeth learns she was a pioneer woman herself, a teacher in the frontier who struggled with prairie life and fell in love with a Royal Canadian Mountie.
Movie vs Book
Year
2013
Minutes
90
Movie Rate
6.60
Source: IMDb
Year
1983
Pages
220
Book Rate
8.42
S: Goodreads
Book
When Calls the Heart
Author: Janette Oke
Country: Canada
First published in: 1983
Length: 220 pages
Genre: Fiction
Book series: Canadian West
Other screen adaptations of the book
TV Series by Neill Fearnley, Michael Landon Jr., Anne Wheeler
TV Series by Alfonso H. Moreno
User polls & recommendations
“I was impressed with Lynch's Dune, but it was not what I had dreamed of. I'll go back to the book and to the images that came out when I read it.”
DENIS VILLENEUVE (Filmmaker, Scriptwriter)
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