

Pure Country: Pure Heart is a sweet family movie that anyone who enjoys country music will enjoy. Special features include a music video for "We Don't Run" which is mostly composed of clips from the film, a featurette on the making of the film, and a video recipe for Meemaw's Famous Pecan Pie, which made me want to make one right then. With a song in their hearts and on their lips, they come together as a family to pay tribute to him in a way they never could have imagined. When their mom discovers what they've been up to, the entire family has to come to terms once more with the loss of this man that had such an impact on all of them. The trouble is, they are doing all of this without telling their mom and that will come back to bite them.

One thing leads to another, and soon the girls find themselves talking with Marq and learning all sorts of things about their dad. When the girls follow the leads, they meet a cute guy named Declan (Matthew Barnes) at a club and there are immediate sparks between him and Ada, but more importantly, they discover that their dad was friends with and played with famous country star Marq Dunn (Laura Bell Bundy). As promised, Simms gets them some valuable intel on their dad, including leads in Nashville. He promises to work on Monroe, if the girls will return later with another pie. Simms (Ronny Cox, Robocop, Total Recall) who is himself a musician. Things don't go as smoothly as the girls had hoped, but they meet a lovely Veteran named C.J. Monroe, the girls bring along one of Meemaw's famous pecan pies. Before you know it, a plot is hatched to go see this Henry Monroe (Lawrence Turner) and Ada, Piper, and Ada's best friend Justine (Dara Sisterhen), a budding photographer, head out in Justine's pickup truck, using Piper riding Justine's horse as an excuse to their mom and Meemaw (Myra Turley). Ada finds not only the details of his bravery, and the subsequent Silver Star he was awarded posthumously, but the name of a man who served with their dad who works at a Veteran's home only a short distance away. Then a fortuitous water pipe break leads to a bunch of old stuff being removed from the shed and the girls start to discover things about their mysterious dad.įor starters, he was a hero, giving his life to save his fellow serviceman when a grenade endangered the group. Their mom, Elizabeth (Amanda Ditmer) doesn't talk about him much and they chalk it up to it being too painful for her to discuss, since he died in Afghanistan some ten years earlier. It's in their blood, since their daddy had a great voice as well, or at least that's what they were told. In a small town in Tennessee, sisters Ada (Kaitlyn Bausch) and Piper Spencer (Cozi Zuehlsdorff) spend every spare moment writing songs and singing. Pure Country: Pure Heart is a sweet story about two teenage girls searching for answers about a father that died in Afghanistan when they were very young.
