Saving Sarah Cain

Saving Sarah Cain is a 2007 film based on Beverly Lewis 2000 novel The Redemption of Sarah Cain. The film premiered August 19, 2007 on Lifetime Television. The film is distributed by Believe Pictures and stars Lisa Pepper, Elliott Gould, Tess Harper, Soren Fulton, Danielle Chuchran, Abigail Mason, Tanner Maguire, Bailee Madison, and Jennifer ODell. The film was directed by Michael Landon, Jr.

Sarahs cellphone rings while shes out to dinner with her boyfriend Bryan Tom Tate, who is planning to propose to her. Its Sarahs 16yearold niece Lyddie Abigail Mason, whom she has never met. Lyddie tells Sarah that her mother, Sarahs older sister Ivy, has just died of heart failure. Sarah hurries to Lancaster County, Pennsylvania for the funeral.Many years prior, Ivy married a man who was a member of an Amish community her choice to join that community made Sarah feel abandoned and caused ill feelings between the sisters. Prior to Ivys passing, her husband was hit by a car and killed. The court insists that as Ivys sole surviving relative, Sarah is the legal guardian of Ivys five children, and if she doesnt take responsibility for them, theyll be put into the states fostercare system. Members of the community protest they want no outsiders to raise the children. Lyddie and Miriam Tess Harper, an elder and friend of Ivys, convince Sarah to stay overnight to figure out what to do. As the deadline for her column is that night, Sarah writes about her days events while shes there and emails that to Bill as a lastresort column. ........

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