{"id":3307,"date":"2010-08-29T02:31:51","date_gmt":"2010-08-28T16:31:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sisterrose.wordpress.com\/?p=3307"},"modified":"2010-08-29T02:31:51","modified_gmt":"2010-08-28T16:31:51","slug":"amish-grace-dvd-release-september-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/sisterrosemovies\/2010\/08\/amish-grace-dvd-release-september-14\/","title":{"rendered":"Amish Grace DVD release September 14"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

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The \u00a0deeply felt television film, starring Kimberly Williams, will be released on DVD September 14, 2010. It is based on true events about how \u00a0the Amish community dealt with the tragedy of the Amish school shootings on October 2, 2006.<\/p>\n

Here is a link to my reviews as well as others for this highest rated ever Lifetime movie: Amish Grace<\/a><\/p>\n

The film is an exercise in forgiveness and reconciliation but is never preachy. Deeply moving but never sentimental.<\/p>\n

My only regret is that it was not nominated for an Emmy because it certainly is deserving.<\/p>\n

Here are some excerpts from the press release:<\/p>\n

\u201cWe will not allow hatred into our hearts\u2026 it not only goes against God\u2019s will,
\nit becomes a corrosive force that further compounds the original anguish.\u201d \u2013 Amish Elder<\/p>\n

THE REMARKABLE TRUE STORY ABOUT
\nTHE POWER OF FORGIVENESS<\/p>\n

AMISH GRACE<\/p>\n

The Poignant Film Arrives On DVD September 14th
\nFrom Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment<\/p>\n

LOS ANGELES, CA. (August 25, 2010) \u2013 The highest rated movie ever to premiere on Lifetime,
\nAmish Grace\u00a0arrives on DVD September 14 from Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment. Based on a true story and the book\u00a0Amish Grace: How Forgiveness Transcended Tragedy by\u00a0Donald B. Kraybill, Steven M. Nolt, and David L. Weaver-Zercher, Amish Grace chronicles the community of Nickel Mines, Pennsylvania, forever changed when a gunman senselessly takes the lives of five girls in a schoolhouse shooting before taking his own life in October of 2006. What transpires takes the town by storm, as the media descend on the city and criticize its Amish leaders for their notion of unconditional forgiveness and their outreach of support to the gunman\u2019s widow. Through the eyes of a grieving mother, Ida Graber (Kimberly Williams-Paisley; Father of the Bride films, \u201cAccording to Jim\u201d), and other devastated families, the film explores the Amish community\u2019s astonishing reaction of compassion to the horrific events that shook their town and tested their faith.<\/p>\n

Directed by Gregg Champion (\u201cThe Magnificent Seven\u201d), Amish Grace premiered on Lifetime to over four million viewers and also stars Matt Letscher (\u201cBrothers & Sisters\u201d). $26.98<\/p>\n