Television reporter Susan Allison is looking for the perfect story about true love, yet she doubts where such a thing really exists. Neil Thomas, Jr. wants to share his parents' bittersweet love story with the world.
On February 14, 1944, Caroline Thomas said good-bye to her beloved husband, a Navy pilot sent to the Pacific. For fifty years, she waited for him--until a miracle happened, and she received his last valentine.
In the present day, when Susan and Neil meet, can the story of Neil's parents bring them together in a love as powerful as she dreams of and he remembers?
James Michael Pratt's The Last Valentine is the basis for the Hallmark Hall of Fame movie The Lost Valentine, starring Betty White.
Release Date: January 30, 2011
Release Time: 100 minutes
Director: Darnell Martin
Cast:
Jennifer Love Hewitt as Susan Allison
Betty White as Caroline Robinson Thomas
Meghann Fahy as Caroline Robinson Thomas (young)
Sean Faris as Lucas Thomas
Gil Gerard as Neil Thomas Jr.
Billy Magnussen as Neil Thomas
Will Chase as Andrew Hawthorne
Nadia Dajani as Julie Oliver
Robert Pralgo as David Oliver
Tom Prusinowski as Navy Chaplain
Victoria Loving as Maggie Thomas
James Michael Pratt is a New York Times and USA Today, bestselling fiction author. Called "A master of moral fiction," by Booklist, his novels are filled with history-laden plots, conflict, mystery, and romance.
Since first publishing 7 books beginning in 1998 with St. Martin's Press of NYC and then with Shadow Mountain, Pratt took time to focus upon family, meet health challenges head-on, edit 5 independent titles, produce one war documentary, while writing five additional manuscripts, all to be introduced in full or part during 2021-2025.
Critics have been kind to Pratt over the years. People Magazine billed Pratt's breakout novel, THE LAST VALENTINE (1998-1999) "A return ticket to Bridges of Madison Country territory." It became a HALLMARK HALL of FAME World Premier Event in 2011 and a CBS Movie of the Week, under the name "The Lost Valentine," starring Betty White and Jennifer Love Hewitt.
It was rated the highest viewed program in its category for many years after with 14.5 million viewers on premiere day Jan. 31, 2011. With editions printed in a dozen languages, Pratt continues to receive fan mail from all over the world for both the book and movie after many years in circulation.
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