I love Drew Waters. I think he's a very good actor and I very much admire him for trying to make good, clean movies without offensive content. We need more like him. There are many (but not all) good actors in this movie - Jake Busy, Michael Pare, Jay Pickett and others. And I have no problem watching low budget movies. Especially since most big budget movies today are atrocious, with very little redeemable content. I had high hopes for this particular movie, but the writing is just poor. Not the dialogue, that is fine. It's the disjointed story with some major plot holes. Major!
Plot holes - a teenage girl shoots a man dead to save a doctor's life and isn't affected or traumatized by it - at all!! She goes home and never thinks another thing about it OR ever mentions it to her dad?? My goodness, even an old Western show like Gunsmoke or the Big Valley would have shown a teenager traumatized by taking another person's life, no matter how bad they were. But this girl just goes about her day like it never even happened! That is sloppy writing! The young boy who liked her and wanted to kiss her is killed by a bad guy and no one ever notices he's missing or worries about him?? And the teenage girl telling her dad that the bad man who kidnapped her - friend to the man she killed which is also NOT mentioned to her dad - was planning on selling her on the black market? I sincerely doubt that a 15 year old girl living on the prairie in the 1800s would even know the term "black market", especially since it wasn't actually used until 1931.
Plot holes - a teenage girl shoots a man dead to save a doctor's life and isn't affected or traumatized by it - at all!! She goes home and never thinks another thing about it OR ever mentions it to her dad?? My goodness, even an old Western show like Gunsmoke or the Big Valley would have shown a teenager traumatized by taking another person's life, no matter how bad they were. But this girl just goes about her day like it never even happened! That is sloppy writing! The young boy who liked her and wanted to kiss her is killed by a bad guy and no one ever notices he's missing or worries about him?? And the teenage girl telling her dad that the bad man who kidnapped her - friend to the man she killed which is also NOT mentioned to her dad - was planning on selling her on the black market? I sincerely doubt that a 15 year old girl living on the prairie in the 1800s would even know the term "black market", especially since it wasn't actually used until 1931.
