Jennifer Love Hewitt is living up to her second name as she stars in Hallmark's Valentine s Day offering the romantic drama Lost Valentine along with Betty White and Sean Farris.
Betty White is Carolyn, wife of Neil Thomas, a USA pilot that went missing in action during World War Two. Carolyn for 66 six years that his husband went missing never miss going to the train station every Valentine’s Day just to relish the last time she saw her husband when he left to fight the war. Susan (Love) assigned to do a story featuring Carolyn and her love story develop a special bond with Carolyn and her grandson Lucas whom eventually Susan fell in love with. Susan’s friendship with Carolyn led her to pursue a search for the missing pilot. Following a lead Susan finally got in touch with a Morang a Filipino guerilla who rescued Neil and through a video conference he was able to relate what happened to Neil after he went MIA. Neil sacrifice his own life by sending out a comrade who was badly wounded back to the American soldiers while he with the Filipino guerillas. He was eventually shot by a sniper when he chose to save a young boy. The story culminated with the recovery of Neil’s body and his personal effects including the heart card and picture w/ Carolyn and their baby that Neil had always carried finally ending Carolyn’s waiting for her husband’s return.
Hallmark’s Lost Valentine is a tv-movie for everyone out there who loves heartwarming love stories. It is a movie for the romantics, those who love Love, those who relish the feeling of falling in love and those who believe in One True Love, Love that lasts a lifetime and knows no boundaries. It will tug your heart and warm your soul. There’s also a strong chance of shedding a tear or two if you’re emotional. A feel good movie about true love, Betty White as Carolyn represents the yearnings of love from long ago, a love that never faded and took 66 years to find closure. JLH’s story arc on the other hand represents the promise of a new beginning, of finding love when one isn’t even looking, of finding that one special person.
I can’t imagine the years of loneliness Carolyn has to endure, not knowing what really happened to her husband. For a short while, I thought that Neil would turn out to be alive, suffered amnesia living somewhere else and then gets reunited with his wife. They got reunited all right but sadly, Neil did die and the only consolation part was that after 66 years of being declared MIA, he was given a proper burial and his efforts for the past war was finally recognized. It was sad for Carolyn, her waiting did end but it was bittersweet, she has to come to grips with the reality of her husband’s demise a long time ago. And finding comfort with the thought was that her husband was thinking of her and their son all those time that he was alive. And that her husband’s death was not in vain, He had two chances of coming of back but he chose to sacrifice in order to save two of his comrades and his ultimate sacrifice was his own death when he chose to save the life of a young boy.
A nice surprise was the movie featured the Philippines when it was narrated that Carolyn’s husband was recovered by the Filipino guerillas and he spent the rest time with the Filipinos until his death. I was not expecting that part and a friend of mine actually commented that she now likes JLH not only because she was touched with the story but more so because the story featured the Philippines, it’s not very often that the Philippines gets featured in foreign movies. As a Filipino, I am always amused and amaze every time I hear, the (Filipino) language being use in a foreign movie which is not very often.
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