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Run the Wild Fields [VHS]

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I finished watching this movie last night and I have to say it is an absolutely lovely film. The story line may have been attempted by other film makers...but Run the Wild Fields really is a winner. Exceptional portrayals by Joanne Walley, Sean Patrick Flanery and Alexa Vega.

Run the Wild Fields is set during WWII. Ruby Miller(Joanne Walley) and her daughter Pug(Alexa Vega)are awaiting the return of Frank(husband and father) from the Pacific battle front.

Three years go by and no word from Frank. Ruby and Pug's hopes for Frank's safe return, is all that have kept them going for three years. Then one day Pug happens across an injured and mysterious drifter named Tom Walker(Sean Patrick Flanery).

They help Tom recover from his wounds and in a series of events he ends up working on their farm.

Tom and Pug's relationship grows from Pug's insatiable curiosity about Tom's mysterious past...into a father daughter type of relationship. Also in the process Ruby and Tom form a wife and husband dynamic.

Throughout the movie, details of Tom's mysterious past gets leaked out.

Alas a letter from Frank arrives saying he is safe and on is way home. Beautiful and touching heart ache ensues...yet this movie leaves the viewer with a sense that every thing works out as it needs to.

Run the Wild Fields is about a woman[Whalley] whose husband is gone, fighting in WWII, and has been missing in action for some time. She's bringing up her daughter by herself on the family farm, when a mysterious stranger shows up and enters their lives. This is a familiar premise, the drama set before us being: 1.what will we learn about the stranger, and 2. how will the stranger affect his hosts? And of course, in a typical Hollywood film, you expect lust-driven sparks to fly.

Yes, things do happen, but not what you might expect. Maybe this particular story is a useful corrective, in its own way, to Adrian Lyne-style melodramatic excesseses, of which you certainly can't accuse the makers of this picture. Still the kid [Alex Vega] is pretty good, in what could've been a treacly, insuffrably sweet role. The adults are ok too.

a slight revision 9/2005: I first reviewed this in 2004. I saw RTWF a 2nd time recently, and it grows on you-- still no melodrama, but Joanne Whalley and Sean Patrick Flanery are better as the romantic leads than I first allowed for. Both performances have a sort of antidramatic calm about them-- as if the characters simply "are," and you have to go to them, watching perhaps a bit more intently for shadings and nuance than you might be accustomed to, participating in the unfolding of the narrative, as it were.

I guess, over the years, I've grown accustomed to allowing for that sort of minimalism in Asian and European pictures, but not American ones.

I usually come to Hallmark movies with high hopes but expectations that they'll be dashed. This is one Hallmark movie that I wanted to run out an buy once I saw. It's well-written and poetic. I would definitely recommend it.

Outstanding performance by Sean Patrick Flanery. Set in the mid 1940's this tale of love moves one to tears. Letting go of the one you love. Doing the tight thing. Self sacrifice and moral integrity are at the core of this movie.

I loved this movie! I highly recommend it! It is about a little girl named Opal, and her mother Ruby, who had a very special man named Tom, that came into their life!

Ruby's husband was a soldier in the war (WWII), and he had been missing in action for three years! Some people thought that he could be dead by now! But Ruby and Opal tried not to give up hope, that one day he'd would return!

Tom came at a time ,when Ruby and Opal needed a man in their life to help them in so many wonderful ways!
Opal found Tom hurt in a field, and her and her mother helped care for him! Ruby noticed that he was a kind and thoughful man, so she let him stay and help her with the farm, but the town folk and Silas (a man who wanted Ruby), was very against Tom staying with Ruby and Opal. Lies and town rumors and gossip, and a jealous hate, caused trouble for Tom and Ruby and Opal! Especially for Ruby and Tom, because they where starting to fall in love with each other!

When a fire occurs at a town celebration, the town finds out what kind of man ,Tom really is! And things change when Opal receives an amazing letter from overseas! I loved this wonderful story!

This has got to be one of my favorite movies. It is a sweet tale of a family in the ww2 period. A lady name Ruby and her daughter, Opal. Ruby's husband has been missing in action for three years, when a man named Tom comes and startes to work for her and fix up the long out of repare farm.It is a great story.

I LOVE THIS BEAUTIFUL MOVIE, AND THE TIME IT WAS IN, AND I LOVE
LOVE STORIES, THE LITTLE GIRL NAME PUG, YOU WILL NOT REGRET WATCHING
THIS MOVIE, SET IN THE TIME OF WAR, I REMEMBER THE SIMPLE DAYS,
GREAT MOVIE

I'm a big fan of movies that are simple in story, yet profound in emotion and meaning. This is one of those movies. Beautifully written and photographed, Run the Wild Fields is devoid, (happily so), of the extracurricular elements seen in a lot of movies today (usually at the expense of a substantial story)and focuses on the essence of the characters and the emotional simmering of the plot beneath the surface. It is a love story in general, but also dives into other sense of life elements that we can all relate to such as self-forgiveness, re-discovery of pride, productivity, purpose, and unrelenting hope. The story reflects how love is a reflection of your values mirrored in someone else and how those connections could happen at any time in one's life. All of the actors in this movie are strong and play their characters very believably. Bravo!

I am so glad I bought this film. It is a wonderful romance story. I recommend this film to anyone who likes loves stories

This film was good. I should say that it was a great aportunity for me to see this because Joanne Whalley(the mother),Sean Patrick Flanery(the stranger) has developed a very close friendship while the husband was in the war. I would recommend everyone to watch this film in order to spend some "Emotionnally" great time.