WHERE THE WIND BLOWS

Name: WHERE THE WIND BLOWS
Item: WHERE THE WIND BLOWS
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“I Am not Alone; God has Guardian Angels”

Family Content: -1 Caution advised for older children, including teenagers, and sensitive adults.

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WHERE THE WIND BLOWS is a western romance about a 19th Century lone cowboy who unexpectedly finds himself bringing a family together and changing the course of his hardened heart. Chase Logan is a good man but never expected to find himself falling in love with his friend’s widow, Jessie. She’s in the process of adopting an orphaned girl and needs his help. Chase is trying to escape his past while Jessie is a former orphan who finds herself a widow. By law, she won’t be able to adopt a child without a husband. Neither Jessie nor Chase expected to be on this path. However, God seems to have other, bigger plans for them .

WHERE THE WIND BLOWS tells an engaging story with a strong Christian, moral, pro-family worldview about finding love through unusual circumstances. Doing the right thing may mean breaking some worldly laws for the safety and good of women and children trying to survive a harsh world. MOVIEGUIDE® advises caution for older children for strong violence, deception, interactions with saloon girls, images of blood, and drunkenness.

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Dominant Worldview and Other Worldview Content/Elements:

Strong Christian, moral, pro–family worldview in a story set in the Wild West, despite violence and murder, the expectations of the roles of women and legal authority put them in dangerous situations that require a husband for legal authority and general protection, the male lead is a good man who, while he drinks and is seen smoking, is aiming to do the right thing by making questionable and deceitful decisionsaccording to worldly law to keep orphaned children safe and give them a home, pro family elements include the romantic leads not pursuing relations until marriage, love is professed, hero shows restraint against temptations form saloon girls, he physically defends a family and acts as a father figure to children, woman is a devout Christian who often discusses the Lord despite having a questionable past due to no fault of her own, characters recognize the importance of family and see the wonderful good of it, and parents defend their family against all odds;

Foul Language:

No foul language;

Violence:

Strong violence in some scenes includes gunfights, man lies on ground dead with blood, fighting and punching, man shot in the head, man gets hit in the face with an ax, and an attempted rape is foiled;

Sex:

Implied fornication in one scene, a couple shares a kiss, scenes with attempted rape, saloon girls solicit sex, and it’s implied to take them up on it or be a frequent customer;

Nudity:

No explicit or sexual nudity but a man is shown shirtless in several scenes, and a woman is shown undressing before anything explicit is exposed;

Alcohol Use:

Men drink at a saloon, and there’s some drunkenness;

Smoking and/or Drug Use and Abuse:

One scene where a man smokes a pipe, and another scene where a woman puts laudanum in a coffee cup to drug a man; and,

Miscellaneous Immorality:

Strong miscellaneous immorality including gambling, deceit and kidnapping.

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WHERE THE WIND BLOWS is a western romance about a 19th Century lone cowboy who unexpectedly finds himself in a situation to bring a family together and change the course of his hardened heart. Chase Logan is a good man but never expected to find himself falling in love with his friend’s widow, Jessie, who is in the midst of adopting an orphan girl. However, God seems to have other, bigger plans for them all.

WHERE THE WIND BLOWS is a solid tale with a strong Christian, moral worldview of finding love through unusual circumstances and doing the right thing for the safety of women and children, but caution is advised for older children because of some violence, saloon girls and drunkenness.

The movie begins with Jessie Strong narrating a letter to her husband, Nathan, asking if he has been thinking of her for the past three months. Cut to Nathan Strong and Chase Logan, two cowboys, who walk into a saloon and sit at the bar to order. Saloon girls begin flirting with them, and Nathan, an older man, flirts back. Chase asks about Nathan’s wife, and Nathan says he’ll get back to her eventually. Chase refuses to join him in playing cards with the girls. Nathan asks him to hold his money and a necklace. Chase buys a bottle and goes to his room, ignoring further solicitations. However, Chase is awakened by a gunshot and finds Nathan shot dead on the saloon floor, for cheating at cards. So, Chase must ride to tell Mrs. Strong the tragic news.

Chase arrives at a log cabin and is surprised when a young woman, Jessie Strong, answers the door with a gun pointed at him. He delivers the sad news about her husband and asks her if he can stay in the lean-to barn for the night. Jessie agrees.

Later that night, however, neither can sleep. Outside in the night air, Jessie she asks Chase if he thinks all those stars could be angels. He confesses he doesn’t believe in God, Heaven or Hell. She says that’s a sad thought.

In the morning, Jessie shares with Chase that she was an orphan from the Oklahoma territory. When Nathan married her, he promised she could adopt a young girl named Sarah. Now, Jessie needs Chase to pretend to be Nathan until the adoption papers are signed. That’s because the law says a woman can’t adopt a child unless she has a husband.

Chase declines and tries to leave, but a wagon arrives with Sarah, Mr. Hobbs, and a teenage boy named Gabe. Jessie tells Chase she didn’t mean that to happen, and he must be her guardian angel. He rides off as the rain pours. She goes into her bedroom to change, revealing burn scars on her back. Mr. Hobbs asks when her husband will return, and she says she doesn’t know.

Realizing he still has Nathan’s money and necklace to give Jessie, Chase must return. He takes advantage of his position and enjoys Jessie serving him dinner and rubbing his shoulders for the charade. Jessie puts something in his coffee, and she helps him to bed as she sleeps in the chair.

Chase wakes up groggy and suspects laudanum, an opium tincture in common use during the 1800s. Jessie asks him to pretend a little longer to be her husband as they are leaving, and Chase agrees. Mr. Hobbs asks if “Nathan” will adopt Gabe, as he will be turned out otherwise. They both sign the papers with Chase signing with an “X.”

Will Chase’s act of kindness lead to something deeper with Jessie, despite some external threats working against them?

WHERE THE WIND BLOWS is a solid tale with a strong Christian, moral, pro-family worldview of finding love through unusual circumstances. Th female lead is a devout Christian who discusses the Lord. The movie also has a theme about doing the right thing by breaking some worldly laws for the safety of women and children trying to survive in a harsh world. The acting and visuals in WHERE THE WIND BLOWS could be stronger. However, the story is engaging and entertaining overall, despite those shortcomings. MOVIEGUIDE® advises caution for older children, including young teenagers, due to strong violence, interactions with saloon girls, some bloody images, gambling, deception, and drunkenness.