“Sacrificial Love Always Protects”
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What You Need To Know:
HAZEL’S HEART is filled with suspense as the children wait to be rescued and their father tries to mount a rescue. Everything leads to a climactic moment that’s visually and emotionally powerful and striking. It’s one of the best ones MOVIEGUIDE®’s seen. HAZEL’S HEART has a strong Christian, biblical, morally uplifting worldview. It has a wonderful, inspiring, uplifting message that extols Christian love, sacrifice and family. Hazel relies on her memorization of the love passage in 1 Corinthians 13 to calm her brother and young sister and give them hope. HAZEL’S HEART has many references to that passage, which links love to hope, kindness and self-control.
Content:
Very strong Christian, biblical, morally uplifting worldview extols Christian love, sacrifice and family, with many references to the love passage in 1 Corinthians 13, so movie also extols hope, kindness, self-control, patience, forgiveness, perseverance;
No foul language;
Three children get stuck in a blizzard and at one point two of them must go outside to move the small covered wagon in which they are trying to survive, boy gets angry and starts whipping a horse pulling a wagon that’s stuck in a blizzard, Hazel slaps brother, and father slams a phone receiver against the phone box in frustration;
No sex;
No nudity;
No alcohol use;
No smoking or drugs; and,
Father and son have anger issues, but they learn self-control by the end of the movie because of the Christian example of their teenage daughter and teenage sister.
More Detail:
The movie opens with William and Blanche Miner preparing their three children for school. Their 15-year-old daughter, Hazel, is cooking breakfast. Hazel is sickly and shy, about to turn 16 in a month. She also receives the brunt of her father’s ire because he thinks that she’s not pulling her weight.
There’s talk about skipping school because it looks like it’s going to snow, even though it’s already March 15. However, if the weather looks worse, the teacher in charge of the one-room will send the children home, and Hazel and her siblings, Emmet and Myrdith can take the small, covered wagon and horse back home.
William takes the children to school in the wagon and rides his horse back home. At school, Hazel’s teased by April, the other teenage girl in class. Hazel is a really good student, but her shyness is the point of attack. In fact, Hazel’s supposed to deliver an oral report on the love chapter in 1 Corinthians 13, but her shyness stops her from even starting it.
Both Hazel and April perk up because a new boy, 18-year-old Rufus, enters the classroom. Rufus is visiting his Uncle Orrin. Rufus was there when Hazel couldn’t deliver her report, and he sees how April made fun of her. So, at lunch, he visits with Hazel and offers her half an apple. Rufus is a nice guy, and Hazel clearly enjoys the attention he gives her. Rufus invites Hazel to a dance party he’s having at home to celebrate his 18th birthday.
However, word comes into the class that the storm outside seems to be getting worse. So, Rufus rushes out to hop on his horse and ride to his uncle’s place. He leaves behind the apple, and Hazel stuffs it in her pocket.
Because of the approaching storm, Hazel’s father, William, has come to the school to help Hazel, Emmet and Myrdith take the wagon back home. However, the storm’s blizzard wall has hit the school, and visibility is next to nil. William orders Hazel and his children to wait in the wagon so he can bring his horse to the front to help guide them home.
However, when he gets back to where the front of the wagon should be, the whole thing has disappeared. He searches all over for it but it’s nowhere to be found. With nothing else to do, he frantically returns home to start phoning people to gather a search party. However, many of the phone lines are down. Also, when William calls Orrin, Orrin tells him no one’s going to go to the school to start searching until the morning light.
Back at the wagon, Hazel has managed to stop the horse. Apparently, it just bolted, but it’s impossible to tell where it took them because the blizzard has no visibility. So, Hazel and the children must somehow survive the night until a rescue team comes or the blizzard ends.
HAZEL’S HEART is filled with suspense as the children wait to be rescued, and their father tries to mount a rescue. The teenagers at the birthday party are staying overnight at Orrin’s place. Eventually, Rufus decides to ride his horse in the blizzard to city hall to help the community mount a search party. Also, Willima rides his horse back to the school to do some more searching. Everything leads to a climactic moment that’s visually and emotionally powerful and striking. It’s one of the best MOVIEGUIDE®’s seen.
HAZEL’S HEART has a strong Christian, biblical, morally uplifting worldview. It has a wonderful, inspiring, uplifting message that extols Christian love, sacrifice and family. Hazel tries to calm her brother and young sister and give them hope. She relies on her memorization of the love passage in 1 Corinthians 13. HAZEL’S HEART does wonders with its limited budget. It looks pretty realistic, so MOVIEGUIDE® won’t spoil things by telling how the filmmakers achieved their blizzard effects.
