Nora Roberts - The wide sky

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Movie
German title Nora Roberts -
The wide sky
Original title Nora Roberts' Montana Sky
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 2007
length 91 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Mike Robe
script April Smith
production Tom Cox
Salli Newman
Murray Ord
Jordy Randall
music Steve Porcaro
camera Eric Van Haren Noman
cut Benjamin A. Weissman
occupation

The wide sky (Original title: Nora Roberts' Montana Sky ) is an American drama film directed by Mike Robe from 2007 . April Smith wrote the script based on the 1996 novel by Nora Roberts under the original title Montana Sky . Ashley Williams and John Corbett play the leading roles .

action

Willa Mercy grows up on a ranch in Montana run by her father Jack. Only when he dies does Willa meet her half-sisters Lily and Tess on the day of the funeral. Together, they inherit the farm worth 24 million US dollars . The condition attached to the inheritance is that they run the farm together for a year, otherwise it becomes the property of a nature conservation organization. The women don't like each other, but still cooperate.

As soon as the sisters got a little closer, they are confronted with mysterious attacks. An unknown perpetrator kills and cuts up animals on the farm, first a cow, then a dog. Lily suspects her abusive husband, Jesse Carne, who was released on parole and went into hiding some time ago. When she then wants to leave the farm, a solidarity can be felt between the sisters for the first time, who insist that Lily stay. The atrocities continue, first Willa's employee Pickles is murdered and then a young woman in a neighboring village.

In fact, Carne appears at the ranch, injures Adam Wolfchild, who has a date with Lily, and kidnaps her. Together with Sheriff Nate and her neighbor Ben McKinnon, who has loved Willa since they were children, the young woman takes on the pursuit of the kidnapper. Finally, Willa shoots Carne when he is dragging his ex-wife through a river.

It turns out that it was not Carne who was responsible for the murders, but Jim, a half-brother of the sisters who worked on the farm for years undetected. He lures Willa into an ambush and brings her into his power. He frankly admits that he killed the animals and pickles and the young woman. The Pickles murder was not planned and the young woman was a hooker who deserved death. When he tries to attack Willa with a knife, Ben and Sheriff Nate approach. Jim draws a gun and aims at Ben, whereupon he is shot by Nate.

Lily has found in Adam the man she has always dreamed of, becomes pregnant and remarries. Tess teams up with local sheriff Nate. Willa accepts Ben's marriage proposal. She agrees with her sisters that their father gave them something special: "a family". The sisters embrace warmly.

Production notes and background

The film was shot in the Canadian province of Alberta , including Calgary . It was produced by Mandalay Entertainment / Stephanie Germain Productions / Lifetime TV in collaboration with ARD Degeto and Tandem Communications . Its production cost was an estimated 4 million Canadian dollars .

Nora Roberts, who can be seen in a small role in almost all film adaptations of her books, can be seen here at the very end of the film, when she happily glides across the dance floor with her husband Bruce Wilder while doing a wedding dance.

In Germany, the film premiered on July 12, 2007 on ARD. When it was first broadcast, 5.49 million viewers watched, which corresponds to a market share of 19.1%, and gave the film the win of the day. Sony released it on DVD.

criticism

The magazine TVdirekt number 14/2007 wrote that the film combined "exciting" romance and drama.

TV Spielfilm drew the conclusion: “Very American country kitsch… beautiful people, beautiful area, beautifully shallow”.

"A novel adaptation with a lot of romance and a reactionary family image."

- Lexicon of international film

Web links

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  1. ↑ The wide sky - Nora Roberts at belletristik-couch.de
  2. ↑ Filming locations for Montana Sky in the IMDb, accessed on July 12, 2007
  3. ↑ Box office / costs for Montana Sky in the IMDb, accessed on July 12, 2007
  4. ↑ Nora Roberts - The wide sky at bestof-robb.de
  5. ↑ Nora Roberts: The wide sky DVD, moviepilot.de
  6. ↑ Nora Roberts - The wide sky at TV direkt, issue 14/2007, p. 68
  7. ↑ Nora Roberts: The wide sky ... above a ranch in Montana brings together six lonely hearts. TV romance with John Corbett at tvspielfilm.de. Retrieved August 1, 2016.