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Saving Sarah Cain (2007) DVD Review
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Saving Sarah Cain (2007) Directed by:
Michael Landon Jr.
Saving Sarah Cain (2007) Written by:
Brian Bird, Cindy Kelley
Saving Sarah Cain (2007) Cast:
Lisa Pepper, Elliot Gould, Abigail Mason, Soren Fulton, Danielle Chuchran, Tess Harper
Saving Sarah Cain (2007) Released by:
Believe Pictures
Region:
1
Saving Sarah Cain (2007) DVD Release Date:
15th January 2008
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Saving Sarah Cain (2007) Synopsis:

When busy career minded Sarah attends her older sister's funeral, she discovers that she is now the legal guardian of her sister's five Amish children.

Saving Sarah Cain (2007) DVD Review:

Saving Sarah Cain is the story of an incredibly successful news columnist whose career is on the decline. Sarah, who was once syndicated in over 500 papers, is now only featured in two. Despite this, she lives incredibly well. She has a remarkable luxury apartment, a zippy new Jaguar and a wall of shoes in her closet. Even better, she has a boyfriend who is madly in love with her and who is ready to propose, at lunch, over cheesecake. That is, until his proposal is interrupted by a phone call from her niece. Sarah’s older sister has died due to some sort of heart failure. It is ambiguous because while Sarah has found comfort in her many material things, her sister Ivy found happiness in an Amish community.

Sarah rushes to the funeral, literally leaving her boyfriend at the restaurant. While in Pennsylvania, Sarah learns that she is the only living relative of Ivy’s five Amish children who range in age between six and sixteen. A child protective services agent brings Sarah’s predicament to the foreground stating that despite Amish rules, the state requires that either Sarah becomes the children’s guardian or they will be scattered across foster homes until the oldest child become eighteen at which point she can file for custody. While in Pennsylvania, Sarah is also pressured to submit her next column, which she does. The new column is a recanting of the day’s incidences in this entirely different world. The article is a booming success, the old Sarah Cain is back, and in a moment of greed and hungry for power, Sarah takes custody of the children, and brings them home to live with her in Portland, Oregon.

Sarah means well and attempts to acclimate the children to a more modern lifestyle, offering to buy them new clothes. She also enrolls them in school. In the meantime, Sarah has found a new vigor in her writing, people are reading daily to hear more about the simple children in the big scary city. The two middle children, Anna Mae and Caleb, find that their old fashioned ways cause to them to receive a negative response and as a result, find that they must give up the Amish lifestyle, at least at school. When they let go a little, they both find success. Anna Mae becomes popular, even catching the eye of the school heart throb and Caleb finds success in wrestling.

All hell breaks loose, however, when the children discover that they are the subject of Sarah’s column. The eldest daughter and the only one to not enter into the school system, insists that they go back to Pennsylvania to live with their fellow Amish. Now Sarah has to decide between what is best for her and what is best for her sister’s children.

The Saving Sarah Cain story has been told and retold to death. The career minded person whose life is turned upside down when a child or in this case children are thrust upon them. The situation seems insurmountable until things go back to how they were. The only thing which sets Saving Sarah Cain apart from the rest of these movies is its incredibly heavy handedness toward religion. To make matters worse, it is oozing with sentimentality causing it to come off as outrageously corny. The writing asks a great deal from its viewers as it makes enormous plot leaps. Lastly, the plot is simply put, way too sappy, as well as painfully predictable.
That is not to say that the film is completely without merit. Several of the performances were strong including that of Sarah Cain (Lisa Pepper) as well as Caleb and Anna Mae (Soren Fulton and Danielle Chuchran, respectively).


Saving Sarah Cain is presented in Widescreen and in 5.1 stereo surround sound. Special features include deleted scenes and a behind the scenes featurette.

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Saving Sarah Cain (2007) DVD review written by: Andrew Mattson

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