Fallen Hearts

Good Court Case scene was excellent Actress playing Fanny was cast very well Nice to see Grandpa Toby finally Final scenes with Heaven and Fanny was sweet

Bad Farthy wedding reception should have been a huge outdoor affair Circus scene/Tom' death should have ended the last movie Troy's return was done incorrectly and should have included Jillian believing he was a ghost In the book, Heaven told Logan that Tony was her father when she fled Farthy

All and all, as usual too rushed

Heaven (Annalise Basso) is the new teacher back home. She discovers that Luke had sold his children and she vows revenge. Logan Stonewall still has a crush on her. Tom is now a clown in the circus. Luke's carelessness lets the lion escape and Tom gets eaten. Heaven blames herself. Fanny wants her daughter back from the Reverend and somehow blames Heaven. After her marriage to Logan, she reluctantly accepts a party invitation from Tony (Jason Priestley) despite still blaming him for raping her mother. Jillian (Kelly Rutherford) has deteriorated further. Tony makes various offers and Troy is alive.

This franchise really rushes through its plot. When you throw in a lion, you get what you expect. This is also the first post V. C. Andrews book. There is an aspect of hate-watching to this. It's bad soap but it's still sudsy. I'm waiting for the evil twin. These books may be better as a longer running TV soap series.

Not all the actors are terrible. Annalise Basso and Jason Priestly are fine but many are so over the top (Fanny and the Reverend in particular) it just ruins the whole movie. Is it really that hard to find decent actors these days?

Why ? Why would anybody make a movie like this, acting is c grade , plot even worse , wardrobe is a joke .

I laughed out loud at grandpa suddenly existing.

He wasn't in the first movie. Not even mentioned.

He wasn't in the second movie- and there was that scene where Heaven has a fever in her old cabin that is clearly abandoned- with no grandpa in sight.

I skipped through the rest of the movie and called it quits halfway through. It was too terrible.

Lifetime, please keep your hands off any further book adaptations.