This is the conclusion of the Beverly Lewis trilogy on the Heritage of Lancaster County. It immediately follows "The Confession" (2013) in the storyline.
Katie Lapp/Katherine Mayfield (Katie Leclerc) has now inherited everything from her wealthy birth mother, and heads up the foundation that her birth mother had established. She's in a relationship with Justin Wirth (Chad Connell), the administrative head of the foundation. He has a blue-blood heritage having gone to Harvard and worked for Google.
Katie has written letters to her adoptive Amish parents, Samuel Lapp (Kevin Rothery) and Rebecca Lapp (Vanessa Holmes), but because Katie is banned, they do not open the letters.
The foundation decides to give major support to the Oak Vale Home for Boys, and hires a counsellor who turns out to have a connection with Katie.
Katie's old Amish boyfriend, Daniel Fisher (Jacob Blair), shows up and causes Katie to wonder about her choices. She makes some different choices.
This is one bad movie. The script is stilted, and Katie's accent is bad. Katie is the only hold-over actor from the previous film. Her adoptive parents seem to have had personality transplants from the previous film. Justin's parents are caricatures of the "Upper Class." Katie's heritage has turned into a conservative Protestant one rather than an Amish one. She's happy to lead out in oral prayer, though she never would have done this back in her Amish community. Her religious language has minimal Amish roots. There's a bizarre barn-raising scene with troubled youth that has little relationship to an Amish barn-raising except for some visual effects.
This felt like a film made to fulfill a contract with as little creative investment as possible.
Katie Lapp/Katherine Mayfield (Katie Leclerc) has now inherited everything from her wealthy birth mother, and heads up the foundation that her birth mother had established. She's in a relationship with Justin Wirth (Chad Connell), the administrative head of the foundation. He has a blue-blood heritage having gone to Harvard and worked for Google.
Katie has written letters to her adoptive Amish parents, Samuel Lapp (Kevin Rothery) and Rebecca Lapp (Vanessa Holmes), but because Katie is banned, they do not open the letters.
The foundation decides to give major support to the Oak Vale Home for Boys, and hires a counsellor who turns out to have a connection with Katie.
Katie's old Amish boyfriend, Daniel Fisher (Jacob Blair), shows up and causes Katie to wonder about her choices. She makes some different choices.
This is one bad movie. The script is stilted, and Katie's accent is bad. Katie is the only hold-over actor from the previous film. Her adoptive parents seem to have had personality transplants from the previous film. Justin's parents are caricatures of the "Upper Class." Katie's heritage has turned into a conservative Protestant one rather than an Amish one. She's happy to lead out in oral prayer, though she never would have done this back in her Amish community. Her religious language has minimal Amish roots. There's a bizarre barn-raising scene with troubled youth that has little relationship to an Amish barn-raising except for some visual effects.
This felt like a film made to fulfill a contract with as little creative investment as possible.